The Junior Readers Series has been specifically designed to encourage reading for pleasure and to satisfy the supplementary reading needs of children in Upper Primary School. Wide and repeated reading of books in this series should help to automatically improve the pupil’s written as well as spoken English.

The Hero and the Dream was written because of the true story of what happened to a Maasai young man. Ole Surum was a famous young man. He was known in Kenya and in many parts of the world as “The Maasai Cultural Ambassador.” But who really was this man and how did he become so famous? Why did school children like him so much? You will find the answers in this very interesting story about what happened to Ole Surum