The Best Safari Books for Kids

A family crosses the Tanzanian grasslands, counting what they spot from one leopard up to ten elephants.

The five least photogenic animals on the savanna swagger through the grass, thoroughly pleased with themselves.

A boy alone in his room with a sketchbook draws his way out onto the African plains.

The oldest female in the herd decides where to walk, where to drink, and when to run.

Twenty-six letters, twenty-six real animals, photographed out on the open plains.

A bedroom becomes the savanna, an orange jeep bounces past the rhinos, and then somebody calls lights out.

Two sisters set out through the long grass, the lake, and a very dark cave, looking for a lion.

A small book of babies nests inside a big book of parents, and any page can meet any other.

An unarmed, all-woman patrol walks a South African reserve, reading footprints and cut wire for signs of poachers.

A grass fire separates a serval kitten from his mother, and a photographer living in a Kenyan bush camp becomes his foster mom.

A tree house drops two children onto the African plains just as the wildebeest are trying to cross the river.

A film crew brings a trained lion to a Botswana safari camp, and one morning his enclosure is empty.

Orphaned and sent to her grandmother’s game reserve in South Africa, a girl keeps glimpsing an animal everyone insists does not exist.

A luxury train crosses South Africa with the game reserves sliding past the windows — and one passenger who never gets off.