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  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446403761
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Pride Of The Plains




A gripping and moving animal adventure tale that carries the story of Huru and Kimya to its conclusion.

Huru and Kimya have formed a small pride with their friends, Battlescars and Blackmane and six cubs have been added to the pride's number. Attacked by an elephant, Moja, the eldest, is seperated from his family and must now learn to survive on his own. Meanwhile as leaders of the pride, Battlescars and Blackmane - face new challenges to their authority, and the Game Park itself is in peril, when a tremendous fire sweeps across it, killing many of the animals.

  • Published: 4 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446403761
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

About the author

Colin Dann

Colin Dann was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1943. He worked for a large textile company before landing a job in publishing at William Collins in London. During this time, he wrote his first book THE ANIMALS OF FARTHING WOOD which was an immediate success, winning the Arts Council of Great Britain's National Book Award for Children's Literature and has been translated into sixteen languages. Six sequels and a prequel have followed and in 1992 a major animation series, based on the Farthing Wood stories appeared on BBC television. He lives with his wife in a on the Sussex/Kent border.

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Praise for Pride Of The Plains

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