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Picture Books

Jez Alborough.  Watch Out!  Big Bro's Coming!

Terror spreads through the jungle as animals hear the news that rough, tough Big Bro is coming.

Giles Andreae.  Giraffes Can't Dance

Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music.

Keith Baker.  Who is the Beast?

When a tiger suspects he is the beast the jungle animals are fleeing from, he returns to them and points out their similarities.

Kate Banks. The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle

A bird, a monkey, and a snake lose their home in a tree and go looking for a new home, encountering various jungle animals on the way.

Helen Bannerman.  The Story of Little Babaji

A little boy in India loses his fine new clothes to the tigers, but while they dispute who is the grandest tiger in the jungle he takes his fine clothes back again.

Graham Base.  Jungle Drums

Tired of being teased, Ngiri, the smallest warthog in Africa, uses a set of magic drums to make wishes, but he is not careful enough and makes the rift between the Warthogs and the beautiful Other Beasts even worse.

Clare Beaton.  How Loud is a Lion?

Felt collage creates the illustrations of this story of jungle animals.

Paul Bright.  Quiet!

When Papa Lion threatens to eat any jungle animal who wakes Baby Leo from his nap, he finds himself getting very hungry.

Janell Cannon.  Verdi

A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.

Eric Carle.  "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth

Challenged by the other jungle animals for its seemingly lazy ways, a sloth living in a tree explains the many advantages of his slow and peaceful existence.

Lynne Cherry.  The Great Kapok Tree

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

Lucy Cousins.  Jazzy in the Jungle

The jungle animals help Mama JoJo find her baby lemur Jazzy.

David Frampton.  The Whole Night Through

A leopard cub stays awake while the animals in the jungle sleep the whole night through.

Mylo Freeman.  Potty

In the jungle sits a potty with the words, "Only the best bottom will fit on this potty," which prompts different animals to give it a try until a stranger shows them who fits it best.

Rhonda Gowler Greene.  Jamboree Day

All the animals in the jungle have a grand time at the annual Jamboree Day.

Wolfram Hanel.  Little Elephant Runs Away

Little Elephant, lost in the jungle after running away from his unkind brother and sister, comes up with a way to get home again.

Wilhelmina Harper.  The Gunniwolf

A little girl cautioned never to go into the jungle, wanders in deeper and deeper while searching for flowers--and is suddenly confronted by the gunniwolf.

Debbie Harter.  Animal Boogie

In the jungle, the animals' toes are twitching, their bodies are wiggling, and their wings are flapping--as they teach children how to do the Animal Boogie.

Gail Herman.  The Lion and the Mouse

In this retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

Elizabeth Laird.  Beautiful Bananas

On her way to her grandfather's house with a bunch of bananas, Beatrice has a series of mishaps with jungle animals who each substitute something new for what she is carrying.

Christine Loomis.  Hippo Hop

A rhyming look at how the jungle animals party all night at the Hippo Hop.

Suse MacDonald.  Nanta's Lion

A Masai child is curious to see the lion that her father and the other villagers are hunting.

Margaret Mahy.  Simply Delicious!

A resourceful father engages in all kinds of acrobatic moves to keep an assortment of jungle creatures from getting the double-dip-chocolate-chip-and-cherry ice cream cone he is taking home to his son.

Margaret Mahy.  17 Kings and 42 Elephants

Seventeen kings and forty-two elephants romp with a variety of jungle animals during their journey through a wild, wet night.

Francesca Martin.  Clever Tortoise

Clever Tortoise leads the other jungle animals in teaching bullying Elephant and Hippopotamus a lesson by tricking them into engaging in a tug of war with each other.

Flora McDonnell.  Splash!

When the jungle animals are hot, a baby elephant has a good solution involving the squirting and splashing of water at the water hole.

David McPhail.  Edward in the Jungle

Edward loves to read about Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, and one afternoon he becomes so absorbed in his book that he finds himself deep in Tarzan's jungle.

Miriam Moss.  Jungle Song

Little Tapir discovers the jungle with the help of a spider.

Jeff Newman.  Reginald

"This is the story of a cow named Reginald who lives in the jungle..."

Joanne Partis.  Stripe

Stripe, a little tiger cub, strolls into the jungle on his own and finds more adventure than he hoped for when he's chased by stinging bees and snapping crocodiles and ends up inside the mouth of a whale.

Brian Paterson.  Zigby Camps Out

When Zigby the zebra receives a new tent, he and his friends Bertie Bird and McMeer go camping in the deepest jungle.

Tom Paxton.  The Jungle Baseball Game

The jungle animals enjoy a rousing game of baseball.

William Steig.  The Zabajaba Jungle

Leonard penetrates the mysterious Zabajaba Jungle where odd adventures await him, from carnivorous flowers to a petrified monster.

Julie Sykes.  I Don't Want to Take a Bath

Even though all of his jungle friends take baths, Little Tiger decides he doesn't need one, until one day he sees his reflection in the river.

Thomas Taylor.  The Loudest Roar

Clovis, a small tiger with a loud roar , disturbs the peace and calm of the jungle until the day that the other animals put their heads and voices together.

Britta Teckentrup.  Rumble in the Jungle

When Giraffe takes hold of the vine on which Monkey is swinging, landing him in the river, the animals in the jungle choose sides in an escalating tug-of-war.

Chris Van Allsburg.  Jumanji

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

Colin West.  One Day in the Jungle

Starting with a butterfly, each successive animal sneezes louder until the elephant blows away the jungle.

Margaret Wild.  Kiss Kiss

Baby Hippo is in such a rush to play one morning he forgets to kiss his mama, but strangely all the jungle noises seem to remind him.

John Winskill.  Jungle Friends

Easy-to-read text introduces a number of Mowgli's friends from the animated Disney version of The Jungle Book.

Dan Yaccarino.  Deep in the Jungle

After being tricked into joining the circus, an arrogant lion escapes and returns to the jungle where he lives peacefully with the animals he used to terrorize.

 

Fiction

Joan Abelove.  Go and Come Back:  A Novel

Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a village in the Amazonian jungle of Peru, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study her people's way of life.

Franklin Dixon.  Jungle Pyramid

The search for missing gold takes the Hardy boys to the Yucatán Peninsula where they uncover a second mystery.

David Elliott.  Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes of the

Ikkinasti   When Evangeline Mudd's primatologist parents travel without her to the Ikkinasti Jungle to study the golden-haired apes, Evangeline and the world-famous Dr. Aphrodite Pikkaflee are eventually called upon to rescue the Mudds and save the jungle from the evil schemes of Aphrodite's money-mad brother.

Kathy Hapka.  The Jungle Book 2

Head back to the jungle for some swinging fun with Mowgli, Baloo, and a few brand-new friends! This full-color retelling of Disney's new animated sequel, The Jungle Book II, is perfect for reading aloud to the whole family.

Martin Jordan.  Journey of the-Red Eyed Tree Frog

A tree frog whose home is threatened by the destruction of the rain forest makes a long journey to the heart of the Amazon jungle, encountering many animals along the way, and consults the Oracle Toad for advice.

Peg Kehret.  The Secret Journey

In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African jungle.

Rudyard Kipling.  The Jungle Book

Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle.

Mary Pope Osborne.  Tigers at Twilight

Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.

Robert Quackenbush.  Lost in the Amazon:  A Miss Mallard

Mystery    When a brilliant scientist is abducted from a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Miss Mallard, the famous ducktective, embarks on a dangerous search that takes her deep into the Amazon jungle.

Graham Salisbury.  Jungle Dogs

While worrying about the wild dogs that supposedly lurk in the jungle along his paper route, Hawaiian sixth grader Boy Regis also seeks to stop his older brother Damon from fighting all his battles for him.

Robert San Souci.  Tarzan

A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.

Geronimo Stilton.  Four Mice Deep in the Jungle

I have never been a brave mouse, but lately, my fears were taking over my life! So Thea and Trap decided to cure me by dragging me all the way to the jungle, where I was forced to eat bug soup, swim in raging rivers, and even wrangle snakes! How would a 'fraidy mouse like me ever survive?

Hudson Talbott.  Safari Journal:  The Adventures in Africa of

Carey Monroe   Twelve-year-old Casey is unhappy about being sent on a trip to Kenya with his wacky Aunt Elaine, until he encounters fascinating customs, endangered animals, and wild adventures.

Kathleen Zoehfeld.  Disney's Tarzan

Tells the story of Tarzan, an orphaned boy raised in the jungle by an ape named Kala, who grows up wondering why he is so different from his ape family.

 

Nonfiction

Jean Craighead George.  One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest

The future of the Rain Forest of the Macaw depends on a scientist and a young Indian boy as they search for a nameless butterfly during one day in the rain forest.

Susan Goodman.  Bats, Bugs, and Biodiversity

Records the experiences of seventh-and eighth-grade students from Michigan who traveled to the Peruvian Amazon. There they explored the rain forest canopy and understory, learned about indigenous plant and animal life, visited a town school, traded with a native Amazonian tribe, and began to understand the economic pressures that lead to rain forest devastation and the sometimes complex results of simple actions.

Theresa Greenaway.  Jungle

Here is a spectacular and informative guide to some of the most extraordinary habitats on Earth. Superb color photographs offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the remarkable and colorful plants, animals and insects of the world's jungles.

Mary Dixon Lake.  The Royal Drum

All the animals, except the lazy Monkey, work to make a drum for the King of the jungle, but Anansi makes certain that Monkey ends up with the hardest job of all.

Christina Miller.  Jungle Rescue

In order to avoid a global ecological crisis, the alarming destruction of the tropical rain forests of Central and South America must be reversed.

Duy Nguyen.  Jungle Animal Origami

With the fundamental techniques so beautifully illustrated in these pages, you'll be able to create a menagerie of animals normally found deep in the African jungle.

Q. L. Pearce.  Piranhas and Other Wonders of the Jungle

Surveys the exotic species of plants and animals that live in the world's rain forests.

Louis Phillips.  Going Ape:  Jokes from the Jungle

A collection or riddles, jokes, and puns about all kinds of animals from aardvarks to zebras.

Illa Podendorf.  Jungles

Discusses the climate and locations of jungles and describes the plants of which jungles are made and the animals and people that live in jungles.

Gail Radley.  Forests and Jungles

Discusses through short essays and poems, ten endangered species that live in forests or jungles, including scientific information about each, reasons for its endangered status, and descriptions of efforts to protect it.

Sally Walton.  Make Your Own Paper Jungle

Ten full-size patterns for exotic jungle animals which can be folded into a 3-D model, then placed in a fold-out jungle scene.