The Very Sleepy Sloth - Animated 52 x 7 Series for Ages 3-7

Sloth sleeps - a lot! His favourite thing to do is to take a nice, peaceful nap. But the other jungle animals are very busy and very noisy, too. Kangaroo is always jumping on her trampoline; Elephant is always lifting weights. However, Monkey finds out the hard way that he's no good at lifting weights, and Elephant can't jump on the trampoline very well. The animals learn that everyone does something best -- and Sloth's best talent is sleeping! The Very Sleepy Sloth is a proposed animated series for ages 3-7, filled with appealing characters, exciting adventures and lots of humour. Sloth belies his drowsy image by helping his friends to understand some important life lessons, and to help protect the jungle from the dangers that face it. But even Sloth is not perfect, and sometimes his friends, and the jungle, teach him a lesson or two… Episode One Deep in the jungle, early in the morning, the sloth was fast asleep. But the rest of the animals were wide awake. The cheetah was on the running machine, working on his SPEED. The elephant was lifting heavy weights, working on her STRENGTH. The kangaroo was on the trampoline, working on her SPRING. The monkey was on the high bars, working on his SWING. While the sloth stayed in his hammock, working on his sleep. “That sloth is so lazy,” said Cheetah. “All he does is lie there!” agreed Elephant. “Just dozing in his hammock,” added Kangaroo. “Hey, Sloth!” called Monkey. “We’re all working hard here. Why don’t you get up and do something?” Sloth slowly opened one eye. “Monkey,” he said. “If you’re so hard-working, you try lifting Elephant’s weights.” “Easy!” said Monkey, and he tried to lift the weights. Elephant giggled as… “OOOOOF!” Monkey toppled right over. “Elephant!” said Monkey gruffly. “If you think it’s so easy, you jump like Kangaroo!” So Elephant tried to jump on the trampoline. Kangaroo tutted as… CRASH! Elephant fell right through. “Don’t tut at me, Kangaroo!” said Elephant grumpily. “Can you run like Cheetah?” So Kangaroo tried the running machine. Cheetah chuckled as Kangaroo landed on… her bottom! “OOOOOOW!” “Cheetah!” said Kangaroo crossly. “If you’re so clever, you swing like Monkey.” So Cheetah climbed the high bars and swung right into… … Elephant. “EEEEEK!” By now, everyone was very hot, very tired and very, very cross. “This is useless,” they muttered. “Who caused all this trouble?” “It wasn’t me,” said Cheetah. “I was busy running.” “It wasn’t me,” said Kangaroo. “I was busy bouncing.” “It wasn’t me,” said Elephant. “I was busy lifting weights.” “And it wasn’t me,” said Monkey. “I was busy swinging.” All the animals turned and looked at… SLOTH! “Hey, Sloth,” they called. “You started this!” Sloth turned lazily. “You must see by now,” he said. “We were all busy doing what we do best. Even me!” The animals thought about it. “Yes!” they cried. “We’re all good at running or jumping or lifting or swinging. But Sloth is the very best at… “SNOOZING!” “Exactly!” said Sloth. And with a stretch and a yawn he fell fast asleep!