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Jungle Doctor's Fables

This series offers captivating and instructive tales from the African wilderness, narrated through the eyes of a doctor. Each fable serves as a metaphor for deeper life lessons, covering themes of justice, kindness, courage, and perseverance. Animal characters bring these timeless moral stories to life, making them accessible and entertaining for readers of all ages. It is a collection of wisdom and adventure set in the heart of lush landscapes.

Jungle Doctor's Monkey Tales
Jungle Doctor's Hippo Happenings
Jungle Doctor's Rhino Rumblings
Jungle Doctor's-tug-of-war
Jungle Doctor Meets Mongoose

Recommended Reading Order

  • Jungle Doctor Meets Mongoose

    • 96 pages
    • 4 hours of reading

    The story introduces Hwikwi the mongoose, who insists on keeping his animal companion during a hospital stay, setting off a series of humorous and adventurous events. As the narrative unfolds, readers learn about the peculiar circumstances surrounding various jungle animals, including Elephant's mysterious medicine, Python's bulge, and Goon the baboon's head bump. This collection of fables from Jungle Doctor features larger-than-life characters and explores themes of friendship, curiosity, and the interconnectedness of jungle life.

    Jungle Doctor Meets Mongoose
  • Toto soon finds himself in the middle of a tug-of-war, for his real friends, Elephant, Giraffe, Parrot and Hornbill are determined to rescue him from the clutches of the jungle underworld.

    Jungle Doctor's-tug-of-war
  • 'Rhino bored holes in the clear morning air with his large spikey horn, and a deep rumble came from inside him, "I am big, I am strong, I am important. I AM RHINO!" And so Jungle Doctor's latest all-too-human animal creation makes his entrance! He begins by carving his own private motorway through the jungle - until, that is, the -elephant-that-isn't gets in the way! Poor Rhino! He seems to be blessed with the gift of not only making trouble for himself and everybody else, but getting into it as well! A large, self-opinionated, grumpy lump of trouble, looking for somewhere to happen, Rhino eventually discovers that there are problems that can't be brushed aside with a sharp horn or a hefty shoulder!

    Jungle Doctor's Rhino Rumblings
  • Jungle Doctor's Monkey Tales

    • 92 pages
    • 4 hours of reading

    The wisdom of monkeys is proverbially small. They never could remember not to get too near to the hind feet of zebra, nor to throw coconuts at Chewi the leopard, nor to look into the eyes of snakes.

    Jungle Doctor's Monkey Tales