Monkey and Me

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The repetition in the text pulls young readers into a feeling of suspense, while the girl and her monkey's actions give a entertaining clue to what comes next. I think that this really illustrates how much children actually know about things we wouldnt expect them to know about. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The pictures are cheerful, lively and tell the story of a girl playing with her toy monkey all by themselves, but words in the simple sentences, repeating in merry rhythm help along the way. The second group did not consist of newbies, but they are always significantly smaller and either not responsive or a bit too exuberantly responsive.

The simple but repetitive language encourages speech development and it is quiet poetic if you ask me. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.

Children will love guessing the animals they pretend to be, before shouting out the answers as the pages are turned to reveal the real creatures. Summary from SPL: A little girl and her toy monkey love imitating different animals, everything from jumping like kangaroos to waddling like penguins.

In two cases, the text seems to hop like the kangaroos and swing like the monkeys with whom they share the pages. Not every kids book has to have a plot and riveting writing, but this one wasn't so much a book as a jumble of words with boring illustrations. Her second book, Orange Pear Apple Bear , was a Quills Award finalist, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and on the shortlist for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her first book, Wolves , was the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Illustration.Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett, twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, is a beautifully illustrated story full of animal fun – perfect for cheeky monkeys everywhere!

Despite reading it SO many times, it was only recently I studied the pictures and discovered they give the reader a clue of who "Monkey and me" are going to see. If using this as a lap story, even the youngest of readers can learn directionality by watching the grown-up track the text from left to right, top to bottom. I really love the use of shading and showing how the little girl drew the adventures described in the book at the end.Both the three year old and the six year old were bored by it, and I was very happy to be done with it. Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears (winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal), Meerkat Mail , Tidy , and Old Hat . Creo que en general, el libro está bien para bebés y niños muy pequeños, pero si son más mayores, se les puede quedar corto.