Book description
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. Colin Dann won the Arts
Council National Award for Children's Literature for his first novel,
The Animals of Farthing Wood.