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If I Were a Jungle Animal

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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 ball could be coming right toward him!

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ISBN-13:	9781416937784
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	05/05/2009
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	449,123
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Amanda Ellery is a freelance writer and the author of If I Had a Dragon and If I Were a Jungle Animal. She lives in Santa Clarita, California with her three kids.

Tom Ellery is an Emmy Award-winning director and artist and has worked in the animation industry for more than fifteen years. He has illustrated If I Had a Dragon and If I Were a Jungle Animal. He lives in Santa Clarit, California with his three kids.

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PreS-Gr 1
In an exuberant paean to imagination and daydreaming, Morton, first seen in If I Had a Dragon (S & S, 2006), returns as a bored baseball outfielder. He begins to imagine himself as a lion, monkey, giraffe, hippo, etc. Each baseball-capped creature has a certain wacky panache that is destroyed as the page is turned and the critter encounters a predator or unexpected situation that makes it much less palatable to be that animal. Undeterred, Morton imagines himself as another denizen of the jungle until he morphs into a walrus ("Wait a minute! Walruses don't live in the jungle!") and returns to reality as his teammates urge him to catch an incoming fly ball. The full-color pen, ink, pencil, and digitally rendered art is full of frenetic stop-action fun and sprawls across the spreads. The illustrator uses multiple perspectives to give free rein to a boy's imagination, and the cartoon characters will appeal to kids who enjoy fast action. With a text simple enough to entice new readers and a story silly enough to keep storytime groups entertained, this jungle jaunt will find a place in many collections.-Marge Loch-Wouters, La Crosse Public Library, WI

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Morton's imagination takes him on a wild adventure. Coach hollers at him to pay attention, but Morton (who looks about eight years old) never gets any action in deep right field. He wishes himself into a jungle, overgrown with colorful leaves, and soon he's a lion. Morton's lion is so raucous he scares away even the elephants. As a monkey, he gets tangled in vines, and his giraffe is confronted by a highly territorial snake. Similarly, his zebra, parrot and rhinoceros face daunting challenges. Maybe a walrus! Wait-walruses don't live in the jungle. Morton's dream is abruptly ended when a fly ball comes his way; can he catch it? Amanda Ellery's tale is simple but delicious, and accessible to very young readers. Husband Tom's expressive, Bill Peet-esque illustrations-in colored pencil, pen and ink-are all they should be: funny, original and so lively they virtually jump off the page. (Picture book. 3-6)

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