Frog Squad 2: Bungle in the Jungle by Kate and Jol Temple

Title: Frog Squad 2: Bungle in the Jungle

Author: Kate and Jol Temple

Genre: Humour

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 4/12/2024

Format: Paperback

Pages: 144

Price: $16.99

Synopsis: Step into a top-secret world where frogs don’t just eat flies, they eat danger! This is FROG SQUAD!

Alert! When a distress signal comes in from Croakomo Island, there’s only one team brave enough to leap to the rescue! Frog Squad must face an angry swarm of stink bugs to find out who’s been stealing poisonous jungle plants. Could it be Professor Cain and The Organisation of Amphibious Devious Scoundrels (TOADS)?

Streaming now on Frogflix!

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The current season of Frog Squad continues with Bungle in the Jungle! Captain Tony Rowley and his squad are back -Dr Jilly Gilly, Agent Quito Gonzalez, Sergeant Nelson Hewitt, and radio operator Roger Rogers have to travel to Croakomo to take on Professor Cain and TOAD in an all-new episode, exclusive to Frogflix.

Croakomo Island’s Code Purple means distress – and only Frog Squad are brave enough to go and face stink bugs to find out who has been stealing poisonous jungle plants – and why. Will one of them find out the hard way? And is their archenemy Professor Cain up to his nefarious tricks again?

The latest Frog Squad installment is another action-packed adventure and quest across the frog world in this exciting reality-TV style series by the fabulous Kate and Jol Temple. The froggy puns and reality TV format, but in prose and comic or graphic novel form are back to delight readers. The prose represents the narrator of the show, whilst the illustrated comic panels by Shiloh Gordon create a fast-paced and exciting story for younger readers. One of the things I enjoyed about this book was that it is one that can be read as its own entity, or as part of the series. Whilst each book follows on from the previous ones, it feels like each story is going to be its own story or episode. I think this makes it a fun series.

It’s also filled with funny complications that sound like they may be resolved in the next book – or could become a funny thread through the rest of the series. Much like the first one, it uses humour and fun to explore environmental issues and their impacts for younger audiences. In doing so, it presents them in a way people can understand without being heavy-handed. This has been done very well, and I think the next book will be just as fun. Another great book by Kate and Jol Temple.