From a new voice in international fiction, a prize-winning collection of stories that cross the world--Africa, London, the West Indies, Australia--and express the global experience "with exquisite sensitivity" (Dave Eggers, author of The Circle ). In this collection of award-winning stories, Maxine Beneba Clarke gives voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, and the mistreated. Her stories will challenge you, move you, and change the way you view this complex world we inhabit. Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war-path through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way. In the bestselling tradition of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Marlon James, this urgent, poetic, and essential work announces the arrival of a fresh and talented voice in international fiction

# One day, when Baby Hippo woke up, he was in such a rush to go and play that he forgot to give his mum a kiss. On his walk through the jungle Baby Hippo hears "Kiss, kiss!" from an appealing assortment of parents and babies, until he realises what it is he forgot to do.... Ages 2-5. One day when Baby Hippo woke up, he was in such a rush to go and play that he forgot to give his mum a kiss. A warm, affectionate story that will delight both children and their parents. Ages 2+