Böcker av David G. Maillu

This is the story, from an established Kenyan author, of Mwende, a young girl from Koola. She tells of her wicked step-mother and hard life, how she tried to run away to Nairobi to find her father. After various misadventures she is eventually happily reunited with her father. The story has simple drawings illustrating the start of each chapter.

Six short stories for young children, each with an illustration, are designed to encourage reading for pleasure. The stories, from an established author, tell their own moral tales.