Animal stories (Children's/YA)
The Case of Percecuted Pangolins
by Muthoni wa Gichuru
Description
Book 3 in SUDEF Wildlife Detective series - In this book, Vaati wants to help her father show the pangolins near her village to the young researcher. But someone is digging up pangolin burrows and her father disappears. She together with the researchers have to find out if the two occurances are connected and what happened to the pangolin in the dug up barrows.
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"Groundbreaking Stories by African Authors exploring issues about our wildlife heritage" Dr. Taddeo Rusoke of Nkumba University, Uganda. African Wildlife Economy Institute, Stellenbosch Universty, South Africa.
Author Biography
Alice Muthoni Gichuru is a Kenyan author who writes as Muthoni Wa Gichuru. East African Educational Publishers, StoryMoja Publishers, Longhorn Publishers, WUPUb and NABU.org have published her books. Muthoni’s first published novel, Breaking the Silence, was first runner-up for the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Literature Prize in 2011. Her novella, The Hidden Package (2016), won the second prize in the Burt Award for African Writing. Her debut play, The Land Along the River, was on the list of Commended plays in the English as a Second Language category at The 25th International Radio Playwriting Competition, 2016. In 2018, she won the Burt Award for Africa Writing, Kenya, for her manuscript, The Carving. Muthoni is also a short story writer and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2015 and longlisted in 2018 and 2023. Muthoni has been published in Fresh Paint Volume 2 (2015), an anthology by AMKA, Kenya, Moonscapes 2016, an anthology by African Writers Trust, Uganda and The Wrong Patient and Other Stories from Africa (2018), an anthology by Africa Book Club, Kweli journal 2019 and Wasafiri Literature Journal 2019. Muthoni was also shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri Writing Prize (2019), the life-writing category for The Perfect Handspring. Muthoni was Africalia’s Creativity-Is-Life-Grants Scholar in 2020. Muthoni wa Gichuru was shortlisted for the Miles Moorland Scholarship in 2017, 2018 and 2021. In 2024, she has been longlisted for the Ibua Manuscript Project 2024 for her manuscript, The Oath.
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Storymoja Publishers founded in 2007 in Kenya, publishes culturally relevant literature for children and adults. Storymoja is specialized in educational materials, children's books, and African literature.
View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher/Imprint Storymoja Publishers/ No Boundaries Ltd / Storymoja imprint by No Boundaries Ltd
- Publication Date 2022
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789966622976
- Publication Country or regionKenya
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 1,200 KES
- Pages146
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Edition1
- Copyright Year2022
- Dimensions200x128 mm
- IllustrationLine Illustrations
- SeriesSUDEF Wildlife Detective series
- Series Part3
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