Kids love animals. And what child doesn't love a good game of hide-and-go-seek? But who is the world's very best player of hide-and-go-seek? Why, Freed the Cheetah, of course. Freeda the Cheetah of Mozambique. Freeda the Cheetah is a delightful children's picture book starring Freeda, that most elusive of cheetahs, who "runs like the wind and walks like the breeze". As the elephant covers his eyes with his trunk and counts to a hundred, the animals of the savanna scatter in every direction. He finds every one of them, from the hippo in the muddy water to the monkeys behind the bananas. But he just can't find that unfindable cheetah. Soon all the other animals join in on the search - even the lion and the blue wildebeests - as the colors of the savanna begin to fade into the evening. Will they find her before bed time?"She had stripes on her face and spots all around. And when she would hide, she could never be found!"Beautifully-illustrated, with mesmerizing scenes of the African savanna, the richly colored pages of this wonderful little animal tale are coupled with a charming and whimsical rhyming text. Kids will love joining the animals in the search for the crafty Freeda, who "runs like the wind and walks like the breeze.""No one knows where she hides, but they know where she doesn't - because the places they looked were the places she wasn't."A perfect read-aloud for the end of the day, children will delight in this singsong story of Freeda the Cheetah from Mozambique, the world's very best player of hide-and-go-seek. (Ages 0-5. Includes a map of Africa in the end paper for an early geography lesson.