Tales of the Veld Folk c. 1930s E.G. Ridley ~ Rare South African Children's ~ Quirky stories of talking veld animals

Title: Tales of the Veld Folk for the Kiddies

Author: Written and Illustrated by Major E. G. Ridley, M. C.

Description: Hardcover with beige cloth spine; papered boards and front cover illustration. Corners worn; some biopredation on front cover and on several pages near gutter (limited to bottom 1.5 inches). No statement of date (1930s). 20 illustrations. [42] pages. Six institutional copies located on OCLC (Northwestern, Princeton, NYPL, National Library of South Africa, University of KwaZulu Natal, Msunduzi Municipal Library).

A collection of witty, comic, sometimes satirical tales featuring a variety of talking veld animals (and one talking sausage), including dassies, a meerkat, springbok, ant eater, elephant and others). A few feature the Picannin, who is very clever and attempts to teach the animals. The white adults who appear are found quite absurd.

[Ref: Jenkins, E. (2006). National Character in South African English Children's Literature, Routledge]

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: A. C. White P. & P. Co., Ltd.
Place: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Year: 1930

Keywords: children's, South Africa,