Four Zimbabwean Adventure Tales — Robin Anderson

TALE ONE: THE ADVENTURES OF MAISIE THE MEERKAT & BUNTI THE BUSHBABY â€" THE RESCUE OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA'S JEWELS. A wicked plan by the even more wicked CHIEF KIMBULLI to steal THE QUEEN OF SHEBA'S JEWELS from her Jewel House in the ancient city of ZIMBABWE is not clever enough for young ARGO and his friends, MAISIE THE MEERKAT and BUNTI THE BUSHBABY. With the help of CORNELIUS the crocodile and VICTOR, a Velvet Monkey and his monkey team, the VEE VEES (the VICTORIOUS VELVETS!) CHIEF KIMBULLI'S so-called clever plan quickly ends up in disaster and the jewels safely returned. TALE TWO: THE ADVENTURES OF FI THE FIREFLY & MOMBASSA THE MILLIPEDE â€" THE FOILING OF HIDEOUS & HEIDI THE HYENAS' HORRIBLE PLOT. A special concert organised to celebrate ZIM DAY and held in the presence of The Queen of Sheba, proves to be in danger due to a nasty plan organised by HIDEOUS and HEIDI the HYENAS, assisted by VICTOR THE VULTURE and his team of ugly vultures (THE VILES) to sabotage the glamorous event. Thanks to FI THE FIREFLY, MOMBASSA THE MILLIPEDE, PERCY THE PORCUPINE and other friends their nasty plan is soon put into disarray. TALE THREE: WARRIS THE ALBINO WARTHOG WINS THE DAY! WARRIS the albino WARTHOG wins the day when he shows WITHERSPOON and WENDI, his brother and sister who are forever teasing him about his pale colouring (WARRIS being a pale pink as opposed to a WARTHOG's usual muddy brown), you shouldn't judge a book by its cover in the same way you shouldn't judge a WARTHOG by his colour! TALE FOUR: THE ADVENTURES OF LUCY THE BABOON & CHARLIE THE CHEETAH. DAVID and his friend PHINEAS â€" on discovering they can speak Baboon Speak with LUCY, DAVID'S pet BABOON and Cheetah Speak with CHARLIE, DAVID'S pet CHEETAH â€" soon find themselves caught up in the rescue of both LUCY'S and CHARLIE'S relatives caught up on the many islands formed by the rising waters of the new KARIBA DAM built across the mighty ZAMBEZI RIVER.