Savanna Stories
The Migration: A New Home for a Gnu Calf
When Nyumbu the gnu calf learns that the herd is migrating to a new place, he is anxious that he won’t have any friends and the other animals won’t like him.
The Savanna Stories collection of 15 animal stories tells how Nyumbu makes new friends with baby elephants, giraffes, baboons and rhinos in his new home, and learns how they get along together. Each animal’s strengths contribute to the community of the savanna.
The annual Great Migration of two million grazing animals, described as the largest mass movement of land mammals on the planet, in which wildebeests (gnus), zebras and gazelles race across the Serengeti/Masai Mara ecosystem of East Africa, is one of the wonders of the natural world.
In this introductory story, Brooke Rousseau describes the extraordinary Great Migration from the perspective of a baby gnu.
If you like this free story, we hope you will want to read the other stories in the series.
What’s the African savanna?
The savanna is a hot grassland with scattered trees that is home to exotic animals.
In Brooke Rousseau's stories, these animals have adventures that children love to hear and read about. Often teaching a simple lesson, Brooke's stories show the influence of the fabulous tales of Aesop and the friendly animals of Thornton W. Burgess.
Children relate to these entertaining bedtime stories whose characters are young animals of the African savanna. Baby elephants, giraffes, zebras, gnus and rhinos come to life.