The Bushbabies

The Bushbabies
Cover of The Bushbabies
AuthorWilliam Stevenson
IllustratorVictor Ambrus
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's novel
Publication date
1965
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages278 pp (first edition)
OCLC230064
LC ClassPZ7.S84853 Bu FT MEADE

The Bushbabies is a children's novel by Canadian author William Stevenson published in 1965. The book was inspired by Stevenson's own life in Kenya, where his daughter Jackie, to whom the book is dedicated, kept a bushbaby named Kamau as a pet. The fictional aspects of the novel involve Jacqueline "Jackie" Rhodes and her father's African servant Tembo escaping across the wilderness from a pack of man-hunters who have been led to believe that Tembo has kidnapped Jackie. The book features illustrations by Victor Ambrus.

The novel has had two major adaptations, a 1969 theatrical motion picture from MGM and a 1992 animated series from Japan's Nippon Animation.