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Mwenye Hadithi, Author
Adrienne Kennaway, Illustrator
Series: African Animal Tales
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Publication date: July 1, 2010
Category: Picture storybooks
ISBN: 9780340970355
On the Great Grassy African Plain Handsome Hog had a beautiful smooth coat and an extremely elegant tail. This is the story of how Handsome Hog lost his looks and became known as Warthog to the other animals.
Mwenye Hadithi is a pen name and means a story-teller in Swahili.
Mwenye Hadithi was born in Nairobi and grew up on ten acres of bush garden with porcupines and gazelles; crocodiles in the rose bed; and a hippopotamus that once got stuck between the courtyard gates. He attended London University, studying languages and foreign literature.
Adrienne Kennaway spent most of her formative life in Kenya, East Africa, where she developed her interest in wildlife. Interest soon turned to art and even as a child Adrienne painted animals. A spell at Ealing Tech in London and L’Academie Bella Arte in Rome polished Adrienne’s skills. Adrienne has illustrated over 30 children’s books and her illustrations for Crafty Chameleon won the Kate Greenaway Prize. A world-wide traveller, Adrienne now enjoys spending time in the countryside, capturing the local wildlife on canvas. She lives in the Republic of Ireland.