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Fun | Jungle Reading
Jungle Reading
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Books | Fiction | Nonfiction
Picture Books
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Clare Beaton.
How Loud is a Lion?
Felt collage creates
the illustrations of this story of jungle animals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lucy Cousins.
Jazzy
in the Jungle
The jungle animals
help Mama JoJo find her baby lemur Jazzy.
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David Frampton.
The Whole Night Through
A leopard cub stays
awake while the animals in the jungle sleep the whole night
through.
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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.
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Rhonda Gowler Greene.
Jamboree
Day
All the animals in
the jungle have a grand time at the annual Jamboree Day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Christine Loomis.
Hippo Hop
A rhyming look at
how the jungle animals party all night at the Hippo Hop.
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Suse MacDonald.
Nanta's
Lion
A Masai child is
curious to see the lion that her father and the other villagers
are hunting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Miriam Moss.
Jungle
Song
Little Tapir discovers
the jungle with the help of a spider.
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Jeff Newman.
Reginald
"This is the story
of a cow named Reginald who lives in the jungle..."
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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.
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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.
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Tom Paxton. The
Jungle Baseball Game
The jungle animals
enjoy a rousing game of baseball.
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William Steig.
The
Zabajaba Jungle
Leonard penetrates
the mysterious Zabajaba Jungle where odd adventures await him,
from carnivorous flowers to a petrified monster.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Colin West. One
Day in the Jungle
Starting with a butterfly,
each successive animal sneezes louder until the elephant blows
away the jungle.
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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.
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John Winskill.
Jungle
Friends
Easy-to-read text
introduces a number of Mowgli's friends from the animated Disney
version of The Jungle Book.
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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.
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Fiction
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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.
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Franklin Dixon.
Jungle Pyramid
The search for missing
gold takes the Hardy boys to the Yucatán Peninsula where they
uncover a second mystery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Louis Phillips.
Going
Ape: Jokes from the Jungle
A collection or riddles,
jokes, and puns about all kinds of animals from aardvarks to
zebras.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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