Morning in the Jungle

Teresa Imperato. Barron's Educational Series, $10.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7641-5724-0

In Morning in the Jungle by Teresa Imperato, illus. by Mercedes McDonald, pop-ups, pull-tabs, flaps and more show wild animals first awakening and later preparing for bed. Fuzzy insets enhance a lion's mane and sleeping hippos bob up and down in a river when readers turn a wheel. Imperato provides simple, rhymed stanzas: ""What happens in the darkness/ of the jungle at night?/ Mama zebra tucks baby in nice and tight."" (Aug.) .

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