The Waterhole Chronicles

Everyone has to drink. That's the trouble with a waterhole.

At one brown stretch of water in the bushveld, the whole kingdom passes through eventually — and nobody bothers to lower their voices.

There's Hortensia the hippo, who thinks she's too big to be loved. Trevor the crocodile, who only wants a friend and keeps accidentally eating people. A coalition of lionesses quietly plotting to leave their magnificent, useless king. Springbok mean girls holding court at the water's edge, a joke-telling hyena nobody thanks for the job he does, a kudu too proud to ever be touched, and a dung beetle rolling the whole world home by starlight, never once suspecting he's the most important animal alive.

Funny, sharp, and unexpectedly tender, The Waterhole Chronicles is the animal kingdom the way it actually is — vain and cruel and lonely and kind, all at the same muddy edge of water. The gossip is vicious. The love is real. And the river never keeps score.

From Inibos Creations.