The Girl Who Married a Lion: African Folktales

Compiled by Alexander McCall Smith with all royalties going to a Zimbabwean hospital, this collection of stories from Botswana and Zimbabwe contains 18 short and thought-provoking tales featuring animals and people, all illustrated with charming line drawings. Ideal for reading to and discussing with children, they include narratives that range from the very funny to the surprisingly scary, magical, bizarre and, at times, genuinely tragic. Folk wisdom at its finest, in other words.