Best Selling Books by Mwenye Hadithi

Inspired by traditional animal stories from Africa and the Tingatinga artwork of Tanzania, the Tinga Tinga Tales series of picture books features the colourful cast of animals from the television animation and glorious Tingatinga artwork. Tinga Tinga Tales airs daily on CBeebies. In this modern take on creation tales, brilliantly colourful Tingatinga artwork tells the story of Leopard''s transformation from a dark, shy cat to the beautifully spotted animal we know today. You see there was a time when Leopard didn''t have any spots. Her coat was as plain as plain can be, and she was very shy... So what happened when Leopard helped Puff Adder, and in return he sang her a Tinga Tinga lullaby?

Relates how the animals of the world, once all a dull color, acquired their furs and spots and stripes and horns, and how Zebra''s greedy appetite caused him to get his particular coloring.

When a baby creature sleeps under a cotton wool tree and wakes up as a fluffy white ball, animals of the African savannah try to guess its identity.

Relates why the hippopotamus lives in water.