Monkey Business: Stories from Around the World

by Shirley Climo and Erik Brooks

Book Overview

his definitive collection of fourteen stories, facts, and lore about monkeys from Africa, Asia, and the Americas will answer all of the monkey questions you never knew you had. With lavish full-color illustrations, this is more fun than a barrel of monkeys!

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805063927
• ISBN13: 9780805063929
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 10

Customer Reviews

Blend folktales with facts and provide fables, proverbs, legends, and introductory facts

Both young adults and younger audiences with parents who like to read aloud will appreciate the lovely new Shirley Climo story collection Monkey Business: Stories From Around The World, featuring color drawings peppered throughout by Eric Brooks, and monkey-focused stories from Africa, the Americas and Asia. This isn't a picturebook, nor is it entirely fiction: 118 pages blend folktales with facts and provide fables, proverbs, legends, and introductory facts. A unique, gorgeous coverage suitable for any elementary-level animal book collection.

Monkeys Galore!

BIAS ALERT! I am the illustrator of this book and VERY excited about it :) MONKEY BUSINESS is my first book illustrated for another author and also contains some of my favorite illustration work to date. A big thanks to Shirley Climo for writing the book and to the editors at Henry Holt for letting me illustrate it. The 14 different stories (and monkeys within) required careful research on primates and cultural/enviromental settings at zoos and libriaries. Expressions and gestures are certainly exaggerated for effect, but opposable thumbs, prehensile tails etc. are all pegged to the appropriate primates. Enjoy!