Alex Beard: Tales from the Watering Hole

Follow the adventures & play games with many of your favorite animals in the African savanna!

Tales from the Watering Hole is a delightful, kid-friendly, super-fun app experience, African animals tell their stories in highly interactive and animated storybooks, as well as their portraits in original art watercolor style Painting Pages, Games, and Puzzles. Unique and playful animated illustrations and natural sounds make the animals come alive.

Follow the adventures of many of your favorite animals in the African savanna – Lion, Monkey, Elephant, Hippo, Turtle, Rhino, and many more.

Author and illustrator Alex Beard, of Alex Beard Studio, brings his love of exploration and painting to life with his signature animals in these charming stories. His watercolor drawings and stylized illustrations are unique.

Based on the award-winning trilogy of children’s books and narrated by the author and illustrator Alex Beard, Tales from the Watering Hole includes three storybooks.

Launching with The Jungle Grapevine, that tells the story of eight African animals who learn about the dangers of rumors through an outrageous game of telephone.

The Jungle Grapevine is followed by Monkey See, Monkey Draw which tells the story of a troop of monkeys and an elephant who learn to paint and draw with their hands and feet in a tale about confronting fears and the discovery of creative expression, and Crocodile's Tears which tells the story of a rhino & a tickbird and the endangered animals they encounter on a journey to discover why Crocodile is crying.

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