Second editions of the first three books are now available on Amazon (in both paperback and Kindle formats) together with the first edition of 'The Smile of the Tiger', set in Thailand. Click here to go to H.S. Toshack's UK Amazon page, or here for Amazon.com - or here for the bookshop.org US site if you'd like to support independent book stores.

eBook editions are also available on bookshop.org (UK click here, US click here).

“Three delightful adventure stories set in Africa… Illustrated brilliantly…reminiscent of Kipling's 'The Jungle Book' - sometimes allegorical, always entertaining. Another place, and another culture, but young children will delight in having these stories read to them, and older children will find them a perfect read.” Books Monthly

Although they fall into the category of stories for children and young adults, the books hold considerable appeal for people of all ages, and if you have not already bought a copy of one or other of them, we hope you will do so - if not for yourself, then for a young reader you know. (You can always borrow it back from them...) 

The stories are very entertaining; but they are also, in their own distinctive way, serious: they raise, indirectly and gently, a range of issues of great importance to us all as members, young and old, of the human race. They will thus appeal not only to younger children but also to older ones, who want to be entertained but who at the same time are beginning to think about some of life's difficulties.

“Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.”  Goethe

Thank you for considering adopting the Paka Mdogo stories for your classroom. If you have already purchased one, thank you for that, and best wishes for your work with it.

We'd be pleased to have your feedback on either the books or the resources: litworks@live.com

To place an order, use the links beneath the book covers at the top of this page.