Mister Lemur is a ring-tailed lemur from Ranomafana national park in Madagascar. He is a writer, musician and adventurer. When he is not writing award winning collections of short stories, Mister Lemur can be found playing the bass guitar for The Scheming Lemurs or engaging in international adventures with his friends.
His first collection of short, rhyming stories, Mister Lemur’s Train of Thought, received the gold medal for Children’s Poetry in the 2011 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards.
Mister Lemur became inspired to write It Will Take a Lot of Us to Lift a Hippopotamus while on safari with his band, The Scheming Lemurs. The group came across a hippo in a perilous situation, and a story was born.
The first of the series, Mister Lemur’s latest book, The Scheming Lemur: Rivals in Rhyme shares how Mister Lemur and his closest friends must overcome a conniving rival and their own self doubt to compete in Madagascar’s most-prestigious contest.
Interestingly, Mister Lemur comes from a family of literary lemurs, and his little sister Lemur Pup is also an author. She is best known for her holiday story, The Santa Claus Alarm
Books
Mister Lemur’s Train of Thought
His first collection of short, rhyming stories, Mister Lemur’s Train of Thought, received the gold medal for Children’s Poetry in the 2011 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. It Will Take a Lot of Us to Lift a Hippopotamus
Mister Lemur became inspired to write It Will Take a Lot of Us to Lift a Hippopotamus while on safari with his band, The Scheming Lemurs. The group came across a hippo in a perilous situation, and a story was born. The Scheming Lemurs: Rivals in Rhyme
The first of the series, Mister Lemur’s latest book, The Scheming Lemur: Rivals in Rhyme shares how Mister Lemur and his closest friends must overcome a conniving rival and their own self doubt to compete in Madagascar’s most-prestigious contest. The Santa Claus Alarm
Interestingly, Mister Lemur comes from a family of literary lemurs, and his little sister Lemur Pup is also an author. She is best known for her holiday story, The Santa Claus Alarm Mister Lemur became a writer because he wanted to see the world and share it with people who do not have a chance to travel as much as he does. This short documentary from filmmaker Katy G. Lemur (with narration from Zebu) tells the story of how Mister Lemur began his path to becoming the most famous literary lemur in history.