Simba the Fortune Teller

Simba the Fortune Teller is a book inspired by The Lion King. It was published by the Grolier Book Club in 1998.
==Plot==
One day, Simba was bored, and his friends, Timon and Pumbaa, suggested that he tell a story. Recounting his life in the Pride Lands, he detailed how Rafiki the baboon had been able to predict the future using a stick. To demonstrate, he drew a circle in the dirt and told Timon to put his paw inside the ring so that he could predict the meerkat's future. Once Timon had done so, Simba predicted that he would face grave danger but would show great bravery. Come Pumbaa's turn to put his hoof inside the circle, Simba predicted that he would meet someone "very special and very pretty."
Just then, the trio's monkey friends approached and offered to play a game with them. To his friends' surprise, Timon refused to play, as he did not want to endanger himself. The monkeys then joined together to toss Simba up into the air, chanting "Hakuna Matata!" as they did so. This caught Timon's interest, and he decided to join in on the game. However, when he got tossed into the air, he fell into a hole. Everyone was gathering to check on him when Pumbaa suddenly noticed a trio of hungry hyenas approaching.
Simba suggested they make a monkey ladder, and together, the friends helped pull Timon out of the hole. Timon was grateful for the save and grew less skeptical about Simba's prediction. Simba then ordered everyone to climb, since the danger was not yet over. While hiding in the trees, the friends watched the hyenas searching for them down below. As Pumbaa warned everyone to stay quiet, the branch he was standing on broke. He tried to hide in a nearby bush, but the hyenas spotted him and advanced on him.
Suddenly, Timon swung past on a vine and goaded the hyenas into trying to catch him. The hyenas chased him, only to fall into the hole in which Timon had been trapped. He teased them one last time before returning to his friends. The trio decided to clear out before the hyenas escaped the hole, and Pumbaa commented that Simba's prediction for Timon had been right.
The friends headed to the river, where they saw a mother hippo and her pretty daughter. Pumbaa smiled at the pretty daughter, and Timon remarked that Simba's other prediction might be coming true. However, the mother hippo stopped Pumbaa and commented that her daughter did not speak to smelly warthogs, which left Pumbaa feeling downhearted. Seeing this, Simba and Timon decided to cheer him up with some food.
While looking for grubs and berries with Simba, Timon came across a very large caterpillar in the grass that he began pulling on. Simba looked over and saw that Timon was actually pulling a snake and warned him of the danger. Timon hastily hopped onto Simba's back, and the two began running away from the snake. Eventually, they escaped, and Timon asked why Simba had not predicted the snake's appearance. Simba replied that he was not a real fortune teller. At that moment, the two realized that Pumbaa was not with them.
At that moment, Pumbaa appeared out of the bushes, and they presented him with the bugs they had collected. To their shock, Pumbaa declined, then revealed a pretty female warthog named Pika, who had become his special friend. Timon and Simba began to laugh as Timon joked that they would need a lot more food than anticipated.
==Appearances==
==Trivia==
* Simba erroneously refers to Rafiki as a "baboon."
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==References==
Category:Books
Category:The Lion King books
Category:Real world