THE MONKEYS’ WEDDING AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN

Thick card hardcover , light green boards with 40 pages. Decorative design of monkeys and green titling on the front board. The binding and the book are in good condition. Cover shows handling but pages internally clean.

Black and white ink drawings of wildlife throughout the book by Hilda Stevenson-Hamilton. She was the wife of James Stevenson Hamilton, who served from 1902–1946 as the first warden of South Africa's Sabi Nature Reserve, which was expanded under his watch and became Kruger National Park in 1926. She would have lived among and personally studied the animals she illustrated for the book .

Contents include The Monkeys’ Wedding, The White Elephant and The Literary Lion.

Lovely stories about monkeys. A rare, older South African children's book.“You must often have heard people say when it rains and the sun shines at the same time, it is a monkeys’ wedding.”