A Safari of Books

Get ready to travel to exotic and exciting places and discover nature's wonders right on the shelves of your local library with the TD Summer Reading Club's Destination Jungle.

Check out these titles and more, at the library near you (hint, click on a title to request it):

Beginning and Easy Readers



Afternoon on the Amazon by Mary Pope Osborne
Bamboo at Jungle School by Lucie Papineau
Don't Go into the Forest! by Veronika Martenova Charles
Downtown Lost and Found by Frank B. Edwards
Emma's Strange Pet by Jean Little
Four Mice Deep in the Jungle by Geronimo Stilton
I'm Taller than You! by A.H. Benjamin
Jungle School by Elizabeth Laird

Me Oh Maya! by Jon Scieszka
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Snake Camp by George Edward Stanley


Fiction 9 - 12 Years Old



Afrika by Colleen Craig
Akimbo and the Elephants by Alexander McCall Smith
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
The Eye of the Forest by Philip Kerr
From Another World by Ana Maria Machado
I am a Taxi by Deborah Ellis
Island. Book Three: Escape by Gordon Korman
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba by Patricia McKissack
Sacred Leaf by Deborah Ellis
The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John


Folktales



Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel
Crow and Fox and Other Animal Legends by Jan Thornhill
How We Saw the World: Nine Native Stories of the Way Things Began by C.J. Taylor
The Monkey and the Crocodile: A Jataka Tale from India by Paul Galdone
The Name of the Tree: A Bantu Tale by Celia Barker Lottridge
The Pot of Wisdom by Adwoa Badoe
Tales from the Isle of Spice: A Collection of New Caribbean Folktales by Richardo Keens-Douglas
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema


Non-fiction



I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu
Rainforest Bird Rescue: Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife by Linda Kenyon
The Tropical Rainforest by Gerard Cheshire
Virunga: the Passion of Dian Fossey by Farley Mowat
Why Am I Rare? by Michelle Gilders


Picture Books and PreSchool Books



Alphabeasts by Wallace Edwards
The Birdman by Veronika Martenova Charles
The Boy Who Loved Bananas by George Elliott
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Crocodiles Play! by Robert Heidbreder
The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
If You're Happy and You Know It: Jungle Edition by James Warhola
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Leon the Chameleon by Melanie Watt
Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards
Nobody Laughs at a Lion! by Paul Bright
The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
Stella, Fairy of the Forest by Marie-Louise Gay
Tiger, Tiger by Dee Lillegard
The Umbrella by Jan Brett
We're Going on a Lion Hunt by Margery Cuyler
When Stella was Very, Very Small by Marie-Louise Gay



Preschool

Big, Bigger Biggest! by Nancy Coffelt
Eats by Jocelyn Marthe
Flora McDonnell's ABC by Flora McDonnell
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth by Eric Carle
Tall by Jez Alborough
Zigby Camps Out by Brian Paterson