Mama Panya is making pancakes tonight, and on the way to market, her son Adika invites all their friends. Mama wonders how many pancakes she can make, but everyone brings milk, butter, plantains, fish, spices and it’s a feast under the baobab tree. A sparkling story that expresses Kenyan village life based on sharing, beautifully illustrated. (Picture book)

A Kenyan folktale retold, the grass is brown and the cows are hungry, but the rain won’t fall on Kapiti Plain. A clever herdsman fashions an arrow to shoot the cloud and drop the rain. Delightful rhyming text, colorfully illustrated. (Picture book)

When a Maasai boy takes his cattle out to graze, he meets a Kikuyu boy, whose family farms the land. At first the boys dislike each other, but then they find a way to share cow's milk in exchange for fruits and vegetables. (Picture book)

Go on safari to look for lion, elephant, leopard, zebra, giraffe, kudu, baboons, and white rhino. Assemble the eight different safari animals and set them up in a stunning diorama! (Activity book)

It’s a hot sizzling day, but thirsty vervet monkeys wait to take their turn at the water hole, letting the yawning hippos, grazing zebras, thundering elephants and galumpfing giraffes go first, until the sun sinks, and evening arrives. (Picture book)

Tiva is a girl who lives on a nature conservancy in Kenya and takes care of a little baby black rhino, Lola. When Lola needs to take a mud bath, Tiva plays in the mud too.
(Easy reader)

Stranded on a coral reef in eastern Kenya, a baby hippo (Owen) is rescued and taken to an animal sanctuary. At Heller Park, Owen snuggles up with a 130 year-old giant tortoise, called Mzee. This is the story of their endearing friendship, illustrated with super photographs (Picture book)

Also, easy reader: Best Friends: The True Story of Owen & Mzee

Annie and Jack are whirled to the plains of Kenya, right in the middle of a zebra migration crossing the Mara River. Searching to solve the riddle of something sweet and gold, they encounter hyenas, elephants, lions, and a Maasai warrior. (Easy reader)

“I love you more than the warrior loves to leap, more than the bush baby loves the moon, more than the elder loves his stories.” A Maasai father tells his son how he’ll care for him, teach him, and how much he loves him. Watercolor illustrations shimmer on each page. (Picture book)

Captivating childhood memories of Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton, growing up today in a nomadic Maasai tribe, where cows are a way of life, clothing is a nanga and beads, and hunting lions with spears is every warrior’s challenge. Joseph is a super storyteller, bringing traditional Maasai culture to us. (Chapter book)

"Remember what millions of hands can do." Wangari Maathai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, organized women in Kenya to re-plant millions of trees, restoring the land and changing people's lives. Spectacularly detailed illustrations tell her story. (Picture book)

Wangari Maathai looks at the barren land where all the trees have been cut down, and she starts by planting nine seedlings. She convinces village women to the seeds of hope, and in time, a green umbrella spreads all over Africa. Vibrant illustrations capture Wangari’s vision and the beauty and wonder of the Earth. (Picture book)

Take a safari through Kenya, where you'll see lions, elephants, buffalo, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, visit a Maasai manyatta (family village), meet a laibon (wise man), and track down poachers. Super photos, notes, colorful illustrations, phrases in Swahili, like a scrapbook. (Illustrated chapter book)