lost in the land of kachoo
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Arm yourself with a pair of binoculars, compass and water canteen; get ready to step into a land of adventure where wild animals roam free; sit down with royalty, get lost in the vastness (that is the beautiful Land of Kachoo); and face the ultimate king of the savannah!TRANSCRIPT
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ISBN 978-1-4314-0694-4www.jacana.co.za
Written by Tina ScotfordIllustrated by Frans Groenewald
LOST IN THE LAND O
F KACHOO
Author Tina Scotford and illustrator Frans Groenewald delight with this series of wildly comical stories set in the fictional Land of Kachoo. The rhyming verse and quirky
illustrations invite the reader to linger in the Land of Kachoo along with the lovable characters. These enchanting books will charm the child in everyone.
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In the heart of Africa lies the Land of Kachoo with vast open plains and deep rivers, tooAnimals roam freely in their wild domain
through forests and grasslands and rocky terrainBig cats and rhino and Thomson’s gazelle
elephant and zebra - they live here as wellThe sights and the sounds in the Land of Kachoo
are uniquely African and will remain with you The roar of the lions on a starlit night
and the echo of hooves running away in frightOr the call of the fish eagle in the African sun
are sounds to signal your safari’s begunCome and explore this land, if you dare
A wild African adventure awaits you in there!
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Lost In The Land Of Kachoo
Written by Tina ScotfordIllustrated by Frans Groenewald
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Late one morning in the land of KachooA little voice cried out, “What am I to do?
I can’t see my mom, I can’t see my dadI can’t see my family! Am I going mad?”
The voice belonged to a zebra foalWith sad black eyes, blacker than coal
“How can it be that I’m all on my own?I need some help,” went his soft, little moan
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“I’ll try and be of valuable help,”Offered a rhino calf, to stop zebra’s yelp
“My eyesight isn’t all that good In fact, it’s very, very badBut together we’ll look
to find your mom and dad”
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“I think I see them near the tree with the flowerOr are those giraffes, in their group called a tower?
Their coats are orange and splattered with patchesCompared next to yours, I don’t think it matches”
Again rhino looked at the tree he had seenAnd there sat a young eagle with eyesight so keen
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Eagles can look at a very wide rangeWhich little white rhino found perfectly strange
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9 781431 406944
ISBN 978-1-4314-0694-4www.jacana.co.za
Written by Tina ScotfordIllustrated by Frans Groenewald
LOST IN THE LAND O
F KACHOO
Author Tina Scotford and illustrator Frans Groenewald delight with this series of wildly comical stories set in the fictional Land of Kachoo. The rhyming verse and quirky
illustrations invite the reader to linger in the Land of Kachoo along with the lovable characters. These enchanting books will charm the child in everyone.
Cover All2.indd 3 2012/07/19 3:43 PM