Fish eagle is tired of being tricked out of her food by the sneaky hyena and she has no way of stopping him as he could run as fast as the wind. Fish eagle's friend, the clever pangolin, tells her a plan to trick the hyena. The clever trick provides a deserved punishment to the greedy hyena which also explains why hynea can no longer run as fast as the wind across the African plains.
year: 1994, 2004
call number/section: 1000, 398.2
subjects: animals, folklore, folklore, africa, hyenas, fiction, greed, avarice
Editions
Mwenye Hadithi
Little, Brown (1994)
Fish eagle is tired of being tricked out of her food by the sneaky hyena and she has no way of stopping him as he could run as fast as the wind. Fish eagle's friend, the clever pangolin, tells her a plan to trick the hyena. The clever trick provides a deserved punishment to the greedy hyena which also explains why hynea can no longer run as fast as the wind across the African plains.
Schools: 4
Mwenye Hadithi
Hodder Childrens Books (2004)
Presents a short fable for early readers about how the hyena came to slink about on the African plain.
Schools: 8
Mwenye Hadithi
Schools: 0