Little Big Friends Jungle Baby Gift Box

Jungle Baby Gift Box — three things a newborn can use from day one, already wrapped

Tim the Tiger comforter, Tim the Tiger squeaker rattle, and the jungle soft book, boxed together and suitable from birth. It's the gift you buy when you want to hand over something substantial and you'd rather not spend an evening assembling a hamper yourself.

🐯 What's in the box

• Tim the Tiger comforter — flat and light, with looped fabric, a silky jungle print, ribbons, cords and a teething ring. The piece a baby ends up attached to.
• Tim the Tiger squeaker rattle — soft, light, and it squeaks when squeezed. Plush, vegan leather and embroidered textures. The first toy a baby makes something happen with.
• Jungle soft book — plush covers, soft-touch pages that crinkle, three ribbon tags, a squeaker in the first page and a silicone teething ring, with a loop for hanging it on a play gym or a pram. Textures to explore long before there's a story to follow.

🤲 Three different jobs, on purpose

It isn't three versions of the same thing. One is for comfort and sleep, one is for cause and effect, and one is for texture and quiet time on a lap. Between them they cover most of what a baby actually does in the first six months, which is why a set like this outlasts a single large teddy.

👀 The boldest of the three themes, and that is a real advantage

Jungle is the strongest-coloured of the three gift boxes, and for a newborn that counts for something. Vision at a few weeks old is blurry and drawn to contrast rather than to pretty pastels — so a bold print holds a very young baby's attention longer than a muted one does. If the nursery decor matters more to you than that, the forest set is the quiet one.

🎀 Already a present

It arrives in its own gift box, 32 x 32 x 8.5cm, so there's nothing to wrap and nothing to explain. Useful when it's going straight to a hospital visit, a baby shower, or in the post to someone you won't see.

🌿 The jungle family

Tim the tiger belongs to Little Big Friends' jungle range, alongside Gina the giraffe, Jackson the lion and Vincent the elephant — so anything added later will look like it belongs. This is also the only one of the three gift boxes whose contents we sell piece by piece, which matters more than it sounds: you can top the set up, or replace the comforter when it is lost, which is the single most likely small disaster of the first two years.

What we like about it

• Three pieces that do three different jobs: comfort, cause and effect, and texture
• All three suitable from birth — nothing to store until they grow into it
• Two teething rings across the set, one of them silicone
• Textures throughout: looped fabric, silky print, vegan leather, plush and crinkly pages
• Two things that make a noise, both of them a squeak, and neither needing a battery
• The boldest of the three themes, which suits very young eyes
• Comes in its own gift box at 32 x 32 x 8.5cm, so there is nothing to wrap
• The only one of the three boxes whose pieces are also sold separately

Specification

• Suitable from: birth
• Contents: Tim the Tiger comforter, Tim the Tiger squeaker rattle, jungle soft book
• Box size: 32 x 32 x 8.5cm
• Materials: plush looped fabric, silky print, vegan leather, soft-touch and crinkly fabrics, with a silicone teething ring on the book. PVC free
• Safety: UKCA and CE marked
• Care: comforter — machine wash at 30°C on a delicate cycle; book — hand wash in cold water, no bleach, air dry; rattle — wipe with a damp cloth, then air dry
• Range: Jungle, by Little Big Friends

❓ Frequently asked questions

Can I buy the pieces separately instead?
You can, and this is the only one of the three themes where that is true — the book in this box is the same Soft Baby Book — Jungle we sell on its own. The box makes sense if you want one substantial gift that is ready to hand over; buying singly makes more sense if the household already has Tim the comforter, which is the piece most likely to be a duplicate. We would rather tell you that than have it arrive twice.

Can the comforter go in the cot?
Not for unsupervised sleep. Safer sleep guidance is to keep the cot clear, so Tim is for cuddles, feeds and pram time while you are there, and comes out once your little one is settled alone. Worth saying plainly, because a comforter rather invites the question.

Is it really suitable from birth?
Yes, all three pieces are. A newborn will mostly look and be held; the squeaking, the ribbons and the teething rings come into their own from around three months and carry on through teething.

How do I wash it?
Three different answers, unfortunately. The comforter goes in the machine at 30°C on a delicate cycle. The book hand washes in cold water — no bleach, air dry — which is printed on it. The rattle is wipe-clean only. Don't put the rattle or the book in the machine.

Are the teething rings safe to chew?
They are made for it — that is why they are on there. The book's ring is silicone, which stays cool and wipes clean; the comforter's is fabric-mounted. As with any fabric toy, check the stitching and the ring attachments now and then.

Does it need batteries?
No. The only sounds are the rattle's squeak and the squeaker in the book's first page, and both only happen when squeezed.

Is it a good baby shower gift?
It is close to ideal: boxed, neutral enough for a baby whose name you may not know yet, suitable from birth, and it doesn't ask the parents to find room for anything large.

🎁 Which gift box?

Three themes, the same three pieces in each — a comforter, a squeaker rattle and a sensory soft book. Same price, so choose on the character and the colours:

• Jungle — this one. Tim the Tiger, the boldest of the three, which suits very young eyes. The only theme whose pieces we also sell separately, so it is the one you can top up or replace.
• Forest — Bruce the Moose, the most muted palette of the three. For a neutral nursery, and a moose is the character nobody else will have given.
• Ocean — Martin the Penguin, bright and blue-led. Penguins are the animal almost every small child takes to without being asked.

🎁 Set, or pieces?

It comes down to whether you want one gift or the right gift:

• The Jungle gift box — this one. All three pieces, boxed and ready to give.
• Tim the Tiger Comforter — on its own, if sleep is the thing they need help with.
• Tim the Tiger Squeaker Rattle — the smallest of the three, and a good add-on gift.
• Soft Baby Book — Jungle — 10cm square, and the one piece of the set you can hand wash.

And if you want to keep going with the same characters, there are Tiny Friends bell rattles, musical animals with mechanical music boxes and a pram spiral in the same jungle cast. Our guide to the whole jungle collection runs through what each piece does.

See the jungle theme in our Little Big Friends Jungle Collection, everything by this maker in Little Big Friends, or browse more gifts suitable from birth.

Safety information

Adult supervision recommended. Inspect regularly and stop using the set if anything is damaged. Keep the comforter and the other soft pieces out of the cot until around 12 months, in line with safer sleep guidance.

❤️ From our family to yours

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