The three stories in the collection
look at how behaviour affects character in different circumstances. In How
Turtle Came to Live in the Sea, tortoise is wrongly accused of causing drought.
Fellow animals decide to bury him alive, but instead of dying he digs his way
further down until he reaches the sea and changes into a turtle
In Why
Slug Likes it Cool, Slug chooses to be lazy and cunning instead of serving her
mistress, the Sun.
In Toto Punda, the young donkey tries to paint herself
as a Zebra. She is almost discovered by King Lion and has to return to the
mother in the farm where she grew up.
Published by Oxford
University Press, Nairobi
