Reviews for Tambores magicos (Jungle Drums)

The average rating for Tambores magicos (Jungle Drums) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-08 00:00:00 Robert O Eversole 3rd I had a lot of fun with this book set in the jungle. Our MC is a warthog. In the jungle, fashion is everything baby. The animals have a parade everyday to show off their feathers, horns, spots, necks, stripes, and trunks. The warthogs are left across the river in the mud and they are thought of as ugly. We follow the runt of the warthogs who is very small. He is made fun of by his own people and the other animals in the jungle. He is tired of this, so he runs into the jungle and finds and old wise Wildebeest. The wise one gives him magic bongos to play which will make his wish come true, but things don't always work out the way you think they should. The warthog makes his wish and everything is different, but not the way he wanted them to be. He upsets the order of the entire jungle. It takes 3 wishes and by the time the story is over, it's the animals who changed and not the warthog. It's a great fable about appreciate your differences and accepting others differences. I love it. The artwork is amazing. The animals are hilarious showing off their colors with their eyes and on each page is a hidden wildebeest somewhere. I didn't find him often. I love Graeme Base. The nephew loved this silly story. He had a great time with it. He searched over the pages looking for that hidden Wildebeest and he doesn't think it's there on every page. He's convinced he would have found it. He thought the animals were funny and so he gave this 4 stars.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-10-09 00:00:00 Bama Boy Here's one I like a lot more than my son ever will. I chose it because it was sticking out just so from the library shelf and the cover art was pretty spectacular. The art inside, just as good and better. The story, very nice about accepting who you are told in the context of jungle animals including warthogs and the "other animals" which are all the animals you think of when you think jungle animals. Everyone wants to be colorful and spotted and beautiful like them, but don't realize that it means they can't do things they are used to doing. I haven't gotten to do it yet, but the last page says that there are characters hid in every set of pages which makes this book even more awesome. I'll be looking more Graeme Base up in the future.