Jungle Animals – Revised
Jungle animals are interesting to young children, who can see them at the zoo, or hear about them in many children’s books. For an arts and crafts project, make a jungle animal paperbag puppet, as seen here: Paper Bag Puppets: 100 Easy Ideas With Free Printable Templates.
Alborough, Jez. Play. Bobo the chimp won’t go to bed because he loves playing with the other jungle animals.
Armitage, Ronda. A Mighty Bitey Creature. The other jungle animals ask the lion to stop whatever animal is biting them on their bottoms!
Barroux. Where’s the Elephant? As the animals play hide and seek, they soon learn their jungle is disappearing due to the construction of buildings.
Berkes, Marianne. Over in the Jungle: A Rain Forest Baby Animal Counting Book. Using the tune from “Over in the Meadow,” this counting song features jungle animals.
Boynton, Sandra. Jungle Night. In this story filled with animal sounds, the jungle animals go to bed but are awakened by the snoring elephant.
Cristaldi, Kathryn. I’ll Love You Till the Crocodiles Smile. In this rhyming story, various jungle animals come home from work to put their babies to bed.
Harrison, David L. Rum Pum Pum. The other animals are afraid of the tiger until he finds a drum which makes a pleasant sound in this story with repetition.
Harter, Debbie. The Animal Boogie. Listeners can guess the animals, jump up and dance, and sing in the story of jungle animals teaching children to sing and dance.
Kerouli, Katerina. Roar: A Book of Animal Sounds. Lift the flaps to reveal which jungle animal is making the sound.
Levy, Didier. Jojo and the Food Fight! A little elephant inspires the other jungle animals to stop their food fight.
Rozelaar, Angela. Jeff Goes Wild. A house cat imagines he is a fierce jungle tiger!
Shand, Jennifer. Roar, Roar, Growl, Growl. Using a question and answer pattern, the sounds of jungle animals are featured.
Tukel, Onur. Rainstack! The jungle animals ask a rabbit inventor to find a solution to a drought.
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Penny Peck, San Jose State University iSchool