Quiet! by Paul Bright, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees and read by Nicholas Hoare @NICHOLASHOAREBOOKS

Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

Baby Leo is trying to nap, but noisy jungles are hardly conducive to sleep, as Mama Lion ruefully notes. Papa Lion is exhorted to silence a deafening assortment of chimps, parrots and laughing hyenas, with some rueful results of his own.

Simple to a tee, but totally delightful.

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