Books like Rumble in the Jungle
By Giles Andreae
For the kid who wants to name every animal on the page twice, this is a jungle roll call set to rhyme. Bouncy, colorful, and full of rhythm — more romp than lullaby, though it settles nicely into a bedtime routine.
A fuzzy caterpillar inches through the tall grass from sunny afternoon to firefly-lit night, crunching and munching past bunnies, ants, and bees along the way.
A rhyming romp through everything that counts as a house — anthills, dog kennels, corn husks, pea pods — and eventually the surprising idea that a shoe, a mirror, even a word, might have a house too.
A little fish paddles through the underwater world, meeting all kinds of fish along the way — spotty, stripy, happy, grumpy, hairy, scary, even curly whirly and twisty twirly.
Familiar nursery rhymes get an Alaskan makeover, swapping in snow geese, musk oxen, sea otters, and Arctic foxes as the North Country's wild critters take center stage.
Two pouncy kittens named Brush and Hush mix buckets of paint trying to make green, splashing their way into pink, orange, and purple instead.
A curious kid heads outside to explore wind firsthand — feeling it push and pull, chasing hats, and figuring out why something you can't see is so easy to feel.
A bright, rhyming romp through a day in the life of birds — from the rooster's dawn crow to the owl's nighttime call — inviting little ones to cheep and tweet along.
A wide-eyed owl wakes up early and can't get back to sleep, so he explores the daytime forest for the first time, watching butterflies, wolf pups, and his very first rainbow.
A hungry squirrel searches for the nuts he buried, poking around a nest of fledglings, Mr. Owl, Frog, Vole, Mole, a cave of bats, and the woodchopper's house along the way.
A young boy builds a whole traffic world out of everyday objects — records, shoe boxes, crayons, dandelions — and sends cars, helicopters, and fire engines zooming through it.
A parade of prehistoric giants appears one by one — some big, some small, some horned, some spiked, some with long, long necks and long, long tails.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
