While the Rondebosch United Church have been remarking on the fact that it took a storyteller from Australia to tell them they had a storytelling course around the corner, I have discovered that one of the stories told here exists in a book that has been on my shelves for 20 years. Mama Rhino discovers a red dress in a shop window and it proves irresistible to her. Well, guess what happened to me last Friday?! My friend Maria told me she had found a shop with great African dresses. The outfits didn’t fit us but on the way home we happened past a window with a red dress in it... 

Here are some samples of the African designs, my Mama Rhino red dress is yet to be revealed but the story can be found in Arnold Lobel’s collection  Fables.