A Big Book of Little Stories Book 4: Chapter 2 - The Great Escape 

Listen Up: A Reading Adventure with John Maytham · 4 November 2025 · 3m

Speaker 1: Chapter two, The Great Escape. One warm summer evening, the zoo keeper locked up the Speaker 1: cages of all the animals before he left for home. Good Night, animals, I will Speaker 1: be back in the morning, he said, as he locked the Baboon's cage. Good night, Speaker 1: replied mister Boboon as he carefully pulled the keys from the zookeeper's belt. I'm so Speaker 1: tired, said the zoo keeper. I'm glad it's time to go home. I'm hungry and Speaker 1: I can't wait to have supper with my family. As soon as the zoo keeper Speaker 1: left for home, mister Boboon went from one cage to the next, unlocking the gates. Speaker 1: Hi, Missus, hippo, he said. Come on, it's party time. Good evening, mister Lion, said Speaker 1: the Baboon. Come on, let's party. The animals chatted excitedly about leaving the zoo. The Speaker 1: monkeys were the first to escape. All twenty three of them climbed over the zoo Speaker 1: fence and headed for the park. The monkeys were excited when they found a table Speaker 1: set for a birthday party to be held the next day. The monkeys at all Speaker 1: the party food, They played on the merry Go Round and on the swings. Just Speaker 1: then, the park's security guard woke up from his nap. He was very surprised when Speaker 1: he saw twenty three monkeys playing in the park. Can this be true? He asked Speaker 1: himself. Hilda the hippo decided to leave the zoo and wandered down the main road. Speaker 1: She was surprised by how noisy the traffic was. It was all too noisy. She Speaker 1: decided to sleep in the fountain outside the town…

Listen in Visual Radio →

← All episodes of Listen Up: A Reading Adventure with John Maytham