Every year the Other Animals hold a Grand Parade with prizes for the most beautiful. The Warthogs dont even bother entering mud wrestling isnt on the program.

From the creator of the beloved illustrated classic, The Waterhole, comes a story about finding inner beauty, and learning that our wishes are not always fulfilled in ways we expect.

Ngiri Mdogo is the smallest warthog in a big family of African warthogs. Theyre not very pretty, but they can put on a great mud-wrestling contest! Unfortunately the beautiful animals across the river dont appreciate mud wrestling they have a grand parade that shows off how stunning they look, and they tease the warthogs for being so ugly.

Ngiri wishes he wasnt so small because he is tired of being teased, and he wishes that Warthogs werent so ugly and the other animals werent so pretty. When Ngiri is given a set of magic drums he is sure his wishes are about to come true, but the way his problem is eventually solved is not as he expects and everyone learns a lesson along the way.

Graeme Bases imagination, enthusiasm, energy, and sense of humour will astound you yet again in this gloriously illustrated book. A wonderfully child-fr...