Goaded by the taunts of the village children, a youngster runs deep into the jungle searching for her real mother--an ostrich.

A visitor mistakes Ritu’s bird call for an ostrich’s and wants to see the bird. But there are no ostriches on Henry Island! where will Ritu find one to show him?

The story of a young girl tricked into thinking she is the daughter of ostriches, relating her subsequent adventures, eventual return to her clan, and her marriage to a wealthy warrior.

These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories in this book carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.

Alfonsina and the Ostrich is about a young girl who lives on a cattle ranch in Argentina. She has a HUMONGOUS quarrel with her little brother and runs away into the hills with her dog, only to discover that there are some mean critters out there. The story attracts attention to how smart her hunting dog is in steering the ostrich away from Alfonsina.

Words of desire, pain, love, desperation, hope, hate, and a broken heart flood the pages to tell the story of a young lady who feels like she's been through it all. These words are the soul of this young, confused and emotional girl all poured out in the book you now hold in your hands. The first part consists of the experiences and emotions that were the poison in her life and then in the end a glimpse of hope is found as her poetry makes a turn and the antidote is recovered. Her story ~ poetry is one that she's wanted to tell since she could hold a pen. So grab a cup of coffee (or tea, whatever tickles your fancy), take a seat, flip through the pages and let her tell it!

I did, with an Ostrich is a story about a little girl and her confidence. Meet Hardihood, the large flightless bird that lives inside all of us. This tale is intended to encourage and inspire.