Joy Bassetti Kruger: 7 books

We had been warned not to feed the Elephants, but they had become so tame over the years, that we often forgot and gave in to their damands with somewhat disasterous results.

Once Kerri had submitted her book to a publisher, she anxiously waited to see if this would be the book that would eventually be published. Her idea to write a story about a writer that discovered some government secrets and then exposed them had been well researched, so she felt hopeful.The publisher...

Lulu did not intentionally seek out the old Sangoma, but when she and her niece and nephew came across the old woman in the midst of a forest of trees and dangling roots, she thought it might be interesting to at least listen to what she had to say.With this they all sat on the ground while the old...

Catherine was an unusual child that longed to do the type of things that normal families did together at Christmas. There was not much hope of this happening in her family though. So she pinned her hopes for change on the reflections she always saw in the stained glass window of the church she attended...

When a crocodile attacks an animal he usually drags his prey into the water to drown it. He does this by holding on to it and rolling over and over in the water until all movement ceases. This is known as a death roll. Sounds brutal, but this is how crocs catch their food.This story is about how we chanced upon such a scene while on a game drive.

Giraffes are generally peace loving creatures that happily browse while viewers stare at them. They are graceful and alert to any danger. This means that they are easily frightened and with their long necks and legs they are prone to injuries from running into fences and the low branches of trees. This is why we were alarmed to see a helicopter herding them into an enclosure.

Call Of The Cuckoo is a story about the changing times of a South African farm over several generations. The title was decided upon due to a special gift for a young woman that was hidden in in a box inside a cave, near to the place where a Cuckoo had always nested, -especially since she'd always...