Monkeys & Apes

by Mike Linley and Ian Redmond

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792450310
• ISBN13: 9780792450313
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 32 Pages

Customer Reviews

Wonderful primer on monkeys and apes

Though it's written in encyclopedic style for adults, the wonderful photos and brief captions make this book great for young people who are interested in monkeys, and great for parents who don't know how to explain the difference between monkeys and apes. It's not supposed to be a children's book, but it's one of our favorite bedtime stories. Lots of details on the different groups of primates--lemurs and sifakas, bush babies and lorises, gibbons and siamangs, baboons, vervets, macaques, langurs, bonobos, gorillas, chimps, orangutans, etc. More importantly for kids, it has several pictures per page, that do a lot more than the text does for showing the difference. If you just read the photos' captions to children, you open the whole primate world to them. One page of disturbing pictures about loss of habitat, illegal primate trade, and pelts is hard to show to children, depending on your parenting style. So far my preschooler lets me skip that page. If you have a detail oriented child and no stomach for primate murder (who does?), you may need to excise this page. A wonderful book for children, though it's not written for them.