Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of the celebrated No. 1
Ladies Detective Agency series, connects with an entirely new
audience with his beginning chapter book series featuring a young
African boy fiercely devoted to the conservation of his animal
friends. Akimbo lives on the large African game reserve where his
father works, and is constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to
see or learn something new. In Akimbo and the Elephants, the
resourceful Akimbo helps foil an elephant poaching ring by secretly
taking ivory seized by the park wardens and offering it to known
poachers. When the poachers take the bait and invite Akimbo along on
their illegal hunt, the boy slips away from the men and alerts the
authorities. In Akimbo and the Lions, Akimbo helps raise a lion cub
that is accidentally caught in a farmer's trap and learns the true
meaning of sacrifice when he must release his beloved Simba back into
the wild. While Akimbo occasionally comes close to real danger, (an
angry bull elephant charges towards him; a cornered lioness threatens
him and his father) Smith always brings his small but determined hero
safely out of harm's way, having both learned a valuable lesson and
gone on a great adventure. First published in the UK in 1990,
resourceful Akimbo is being introduced to an American audience for
the first time, and will undoubtedly be warmly welcomed by young fans
of Ann Cameron's Julian stories, and Paula Danziger's Amber Brown
books. --Jennifer Hubert
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