Laughing Giraffe by Mwenye Hadithi5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This all changes when the Littlest Egret challenges Giraffe to see who is the loudest. It shouted and laughed all the time and frequently scared some of the other creatures out of their wits. The story is about a giraffe who was, once upon a time, one of the noisiest animals on the great plains of Africa. ![]() The familiarity of the story’s setting and the wild animals are probably some of the reasons the publisher chose it for translation. Without knowing that the author grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, and that he grew up in a wild garden full of gazelles, porcupines and warthogs, one could have assumed it was a locally crafted tale. Laughing Giraffe, originally published in English, has recently been translated into Afrikaans (Kameelperd wat so Lag), isiZulu (Undlulamithi oHlekayo) and isi-Xhosa (Undlulamthi Ohlekayo). Kameel-Perd Wat So Lag (Laughing Giraffe) by Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway Laughing Giraffe, originally published in English, has recently been translated into Afrikaans (Kameelperd wat so Lag). ![]()
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