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If I Were a Jungle Animal
The team behind If I Had a Dragon bring us a bold, colorful look at Morton’s latest daydream—a safari! Morton is bored playing baseball all the way in the outfield. But if he were in the jungle, he could be a lion or a zebra or a hippopotamus! Yeah, if he were a jungle animal, then things would be exciting. But maybe too much excitement is too distracting! After all, a bal...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
May 5th 2009
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Tom and Amanda Ellery's If I Were a Jungle Animal is a great book. It reminded Rachel of Peter, Paul, and Mary's (what? Rachel's dad is a fan...) song "Right Field." The story starts out with a bored little boy out in the outfield during a baseball game. We think everyone can probably sympathize. Baseball is boring (shhh... don't tell Layla's dad we said that).
So the boy starts day dreaming, as you do. He imagines what it would be like to be a jungle animal, but everything goes wrong! As a lion,...more
So the boy starts day dreaming, as you do. He imagines what it would be like to be a jungle animal, but everything goes wrong! As a lion,...more
If I Were a Jungle Animal is a sweet little book about a little boy who daydreams about being a jungle animal--while he's supposed to be paying attention in the outfield during his baseball game. He imagines a scenario where he's a whole bunch of different animals (hippopotamus, giraffe, monkey) and finally a walrus--but wait! Walruses don't live in the jungle! Preschoolers will definitely enjoy this book and might even catch the fact that walruses don't live in the jungle.
Aug 18, 2009
Becky
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
preschool and up
Shelves:
picture-books,
read-alouds
Jenn hooked me when she called this her new favorite picture book! And it is indeed a hoot, as a little boy (stranded in the outfield where no exciting plays happen) imagines being different jungle animals, until the unthinkable happens: the ball comes his way.
Right away I wondered if the illustrator was an animator, and he is! These pictures just burst with expressiveness, motion, and good composition. Let's have more animators doing picture books!
Right away I wondered if the illustrator was an animator, and he is! These pictures just burst with expressiveness, motion, and good composition. Let's have more animators doing picture books!
Morton is a young boy who has trouble concentrating while playing baseball. I think children will enjoy the story, ask questions, and make animal noises while enjoying it! The best part, in my opinion, is the book also has the words printed in Spanish, towards the bottom of the page. Even better-it was my prize out of the Cheerios box!
Feb 06, 2011
Dolly
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
beginning readers and parents reading with them
This story is about a young boy who is daydreaming out in right field during a ballgame (I've been there!) His imagination takes him to the jungle, which is fraught with danger at every corner. It's a fun book to read aloud and with a simple dialogue and big, colorful illustrations, it's good for beginning readers, too.
Morton is a little league baseball outfielder- Very Bored. So he imagines all the different places/creatures he would rather be. In the end he decides that he is fine where he is, and then he finally catches the ball.
Good for a jungle/zoo or sports storytime.
Good for a jungle/zoo or sports storytime.
this book is about imagination. it also show the different animals you may see in the jungle and briefly tells what that animal may do all day.
have kids pick an animal from the jungle and tell a story about a day in the life as that animal.
have kids pick an animal from the jungle and tell a story about a day in the life as that animal.
a boy plays baseball but has a hard time concentrating when he is playing in the outfield. He imagines himself in a jungle as each of the animals. The illustrations are very funny and make the story. Great book for jungle storytime.
Very fun and cute imagination story. My son was just mentioning that he'd like to be a number of different animals yesterday when I said that ladies don't like to be called animal names so this was perfect.
This has to be my new favorite! Kids crack up at Morton's animal transformations and the chaos that ensues. And I love the billboard ads on the last illustration.
bored in the outfield, morton imagines he is different types of animals. children will love exercising their imaginations while enjoying this story.
Great stroytime book. Kid is stuck in outfield bored out of his mind and begins to wonder what it would be like to be different jungle animals.
Boo! Zebras and giraffes are not jungle animals! I rate so few books on goodreads. Why did I choose to rate this one?
This is about a kid who has an active imagination while waiting for something to happen in the outfield durring a baseball game.
The boys read this before bed with Daddy. They all 3 laughed through the whole thing. They love books about animals!
Great vibrant illustrations
While playing baseball, a boy wonders what it would be like to be different jungle animals.
While playing baseball, a boy wonders what it would be like to be different jungle animals.
A little boy gets bored during a baseball game and imagines himself as different animals in the jungle. Hilarious!
Right field can be so boring. Now a jungle, THAT's exciting! What jungle animal should Morton be? Humorous.
Not a huge fan. We are taken with Morton as he imagines all of the jungle animals he would like to be.
Same author/illustrator as "If I Were a Dragon". It's just fun. And cute.
Recommended at the BYU Symposium. Looks cute!
let's pretend, imagination
AFG
baseball, jungle animals, imagination, playing pretend
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