By COLIN DANN, Illustrator NEIL REID
The two sister lionesses stirred as the sun rose over the game park. They had spent their first night of freedom in the African savannah. This was their home now and they were at liberty to explore all its strange and exciting new possibilities without
any restraint.
The memory of Lingmere Zoo in England, where they had grown to adulthood, was dimming. The zoo had closed and the two lions, after some difficulties, had been transported to the continent of Africa and resettled in their ancestral home. It had been an adventurous plan and it was yet to be proved successful.
But the sisters, particularly the bolder of the two, were keen and alert as they viewed their surroundings.
Their old keeper Joel had overseen their transfer from England to Africa, and had taken the job of assistant to Simon Obagwe, the game warden in charge of the Kamenza animal refuge centre where the lions had initially been penned on their arrival.
Now he hoped to be able to monitor their progress. With some help from his boss's little daughter, Annie, he had chosen new names for the sisters.
Publisher: Random House
Price: $16.95
Age group: 8-13 years
