Books with author Philip Begho

Toju and Tosan, two seven-year-old friends, are able to travel to Bible times, using the time caps Toju’s scientist father invented. In this adventure, they wonder if animals speak to humans but humans can’t understand. Who better to ask than Balaam’s donkey which once spoke in a human voice? What fun they have as they travel back in time to question Balaam’s donkey!

Junior is grateful that God rescues him again and again from the wicked Aunty Felicia, but he would like God to put an end once and for all to her evil schemes. Thoughts niggle him. Why, he wonders, does Aunty Felicia always escape being caught? Why does God permit this? Big questions that only his Sunday school teacher, perhaps, can answer. Junior goes to his Sunday school teacher – and what does he find? What?

Froggy is the school’s best-loved clown – and Aunty Felicia dares kidnap him to get at Junior! Does Junior stay idle when this happens? For help, does he look to Froggy’s parents who are waiting for the police, who in turn are waiting for a ransom phone call Junior knows will never come? What a shock awaits Aunty Felicia when Junior whips his classmates into bold and marvelous action!

Nine-year-old Junior Nelson experiences pain and shock when he sees what he shouldn't see. His travails deepen when the grown-ups in his world do not believe his story. Should he now tell a lie to please society and keep his family from unraveling? Junior's confusion is unabated as he watches truth and disbelief wrestle in mortal combat. This book won the 2003 ANA/MATATU Prize for Children's Literature.

Aunty Felicia is as tricky as she is devilish, and no one knows this better than Junior. So when she sends a note to school suggesting a soccer match, Junior doesn’t fall for her tricks. But the other kids think it’s a super idea – and the girls are sure they would trounce the boys’ team. “It’s a trick! It’s a trick!” cries Junior. But no one listens. They think he’s just being a spoilsport. But is he? Doesn’t Aunty Felicia strike? Doesn’t bedlam run loose on the playing fields of Festac Foundation School? Doesn’t disaster run riot?

Toju and Tosan, two seven-year-old friends, are able to travel to Bible times, using the time caps Toju’s scientist father invented. When Tosan is attacked by Pharaoh’s Dog – owned by a neighbor – she and Toju wonder about the occasional strange behavior of animals. They decide to visit a lion in Bible times that behaved most oddly – and what fun they have!