num_pages: 80
description: Akimbo is excited to have his cousin Kosi visit him on the game reserve where he lives and when a visiting scientist invites the boys to join her when she studies a pack of baboons they cant wait to assist her in the bush. The baboons they find are fun to observe but when a black leopard threatens the packand the scientistAkimbo and Kosi are reminded that danger is ever present in the African bush. Alexander McCall Smith takes young readers on a safari to his beloved Africa in this perfect chapter book beautifully brought to life with illustrations by LeUyen Pham.Including 3 pages of brilliant baboon facts!
language: English
title: Akimbo and the Baboons
publisher: Knopf Canada