Story made up by Reception Children at Leighswood School Aldridge in 2002.  Click on the pictures for better quality copies

In the jungle, there is the sound of drumming.  All the animals of the jungle can hear the drums, and they are gathering round.  Lions, tigers, snakes, giraffes and monkeys are all getting together.  Little baby tigers are going with their mothers, and frogs are hopping, elephants marching.  Soon they are all gathered, asking why the drum was being beaten.

The tiger has banged the drum, and he explains why.  ‘We have heard that a naughty man is coming here’, he said.  The animals looked frightened. ‘He is coming to burn down and chop down the trees of the jungle.  He will kill some of the animals and catch others, and he is going to make the whole jungle into a jungle farm, where we are all in cages’.

When the stripy tiger tells them about this, the animals decide to call the crocodile police, who arrive with their sharp snappy teeth.  They will catch this man and eat him.  They ask the giraffe, who is very tall, to look out, and tell them when he sees the man, and the animals all wait.

The naughty man is coming into the jungle, with robots and machines and other men, chopping down the trees.  There are so many of them, it will take all the animals to stop them.  All of the animals help in different ways.  The giraffe helps by watching out, the crocodiles snap, and the snakes hiss.

When the giraffe calls out that he can see the man, all the animals rush out and stop him, and the crocodile police call out, ‘stop in the name of the crocodile law.  Why are you chopping down the trees?  They ask.

‘So I can build a farm, and put you all in cages,’ says the man.  When the trees have gone, the monkeys and orang-utans and snakes and tree-frogs will have nowhere to live, except in my cages’

The animals all gather round, getting closer and closer.  They are roaring, hissing and snapping at the man.  In the end he is so frightened he stops chopping trees, and agrees to go away.  He promises to build an ordinary farm, with cows and sheep, and says he will not be coming back to the jungle again.

The animals all cheer, they are so pleased that by helping each other they have saved the jungle.  Soon the drums have started again, but this time, it is dancing drumming, and the animals have a big, noisy, happy party.  They are so pleased that they have saved the jungle, that the party goes on all night.