The Junior African Writers Series offers young readers exciting and interesting original stories set in Africa. The stories are graded into five levels of language difficulty.

Here is a poem set in Zambia. A girl wants to visit her grandmother in the country. But her mother says no.

Then a madman in a baobab tree changes her mother's mind.

This book is part of a book series called Junior African Writers-Level 1 .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited .