The Bushbabies
Cover of The Bushbabies | |
| Author | William Stevenson |
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| Illustrator | Victor Ambrus |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 278 pp (first edition) |
| OCLC | 230064 |
| LC Class | PZ7.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.