This is for my friend Vera, animal lover, silly, kind and loyal. Read her books! (Manny Mota)

Listen to all seven animals tell their story about living in animal village.

Preview audio:

storyj.mp/apuyvpvwa69

Table of contents:

Tiger Page 5

Butterfly page 18

Elephant Page 32

In the next book:

Bunny

Flamingo

Panda

Ant

Animal village

Run! The tiger's coming!

Chapter 1

Tiger.

Some animals in the village, think us tigers are mean and we eat other animals, but we are vegetarians so we only eat plants, not animals. To be honest, I like going to the village entry and all the animals scream and run away. It's like the opposite of popular. I like my personal space and the other tigers don't run away, so I do get to have time with my friends.

Sometimes I do get lonely though, like birthday parties for example I send out invites to the entire village like this...

Your invited to:

Tiger 's Party!

And then this is how many people show up...

And this is Bunny's party...

Sometimes I feel invisible, like a little dot in the big world. That's what it's like being me.

Mom says other animals are being chickens, but I think they just don't want to take their chances with me. You know how tigers can be sometimes, they scare other animals.

The village is a nice, peaceful place, everyone gets along, I like that I'm kinda an outsider.

Dad says I'm TOO independent, but if there's anything I've learned from him, you can NEVER be too independent.

I am more of an independent tiger anyway, so my life really isn't so bad! I have a ton of friends and their awesome! But if I was friends with all the animals in the village, (Like Panda the most popular) I guess it could be better but for now I'll just go with the flow!

Chapter 2

Butterfly

I'm a pretty animal or insect rather, I don't like being called a bug though, I'm not related to ant or anything. I would be ok with pretty insect but bug is what I got. anything but that. Call me butter that flies for all I care just NOT bug.

Whatever...

Today I plan on just relaxing but it was nice out so I went outside. I saw tigers birthday party invite on the wall and zoomed away, I wasn't going. I'm NOT going to be the only animal that wasn't a tiger there. I'm the first animal to say I don't like tiger but I don't want to hurt his feelings so I left a gift for him on his doorstep.

Flamingo cottage

Bunny Cabin

Elephant apartment

Tiger H.Q

Ant Mushroom

I live on Butterfly hill in animal village, well it's not a hill but it's fun to come up with a cool name. My house is cool it looks like this it's exactly what it sounds like ...

I guess I should consider myself very lucky because I have the biggest house in the village (Besides Panda)and a pool, but like I said before; I don't like being called bug.

And guess what animals call me?

Bug

"Hey look it's bug!" "Hi bug!" They don't call ant bug!

It's butterfly not "Bugerfly" get it right!

BUG!

I have a lot of friends in the village, but me and ant are INSEPARABLE! Ever since we starting going to school at Animal Country day Elementary. We had our first playdate at my house during the summer (we had others at her house) and we swam and had the time of our lives!