Introduces animals that live in the jungle, discussing how they move, find food, and appear.

Rhyming verses introduce a number of jungle animals.

When the jungle animals are hot, a baby elephant has a good solution involving the squirting and splashing of water at the water hole.

After being tricked into joining the circus, an arrogant lion escapes and returns to the jungle where he lives peacefully with the animals he used to terrorize.

Despite being offered tempting fruits by his jungle friends, Monkey wants only to find his lost banana.

None of her jungle friends can find Hilda Hippo a quieter, less disruptive replacement for dancing, her favorite hobby, until Water Buffalo suggests an activity that allows Hilda to express her dance creativity in a new way.

Tired of being teased, Ngiri, the smallest warthog in Africa, uses a set of magic drums to make wishes, but he is not careful enough and makes the rift between the Warthogs and the beautiful Other Beasts even worse.

Clovis, a small tiger with a loud roar, disturbs the peace and calm of the jungle until the day that the other animals put their heads and voices together.

A cumulative rhyme in which a fly is gobbled by a spider, which is then gulped by a frog, and so on until the king of beasts himself makes an appearance.

When Little Monkey decides to venture out into the jungle alone, beyond the gaze of his watchful Mama, he discovers that other animals are not as friendly and warm as his own family and that independence is not altogether a good thing.