Jungle Jazz

The Dung Beatles have lots of fun at band practise; until the evening they discover their instruments have mysteriously disappeared!
A little slime is the only clue …

Jazz sounds drift through the trees deep in the South American jungle. Creatures wriggle, shake and swing to the beat of the drums. Snake  really wants to be part of the band but he has no thumbs to thrum or strum. He can’t even hum or bang on a drum!

Snake tires of watching The Dung Beatles having fun every evening, jazzing and jiving and having a ball, so he decides to do something about it.

‘Finally, he could stand it no more.
After the animals went home that night,
Snake slithered over to the instruments.’

What happens next is the unfolding of a hilarious tale of finding that ‘hidden talent’, that special something that you’re unknowingly good at.

Written by Jo van Dam and illustrated by Deborah Hinde