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Publisher - Clarion Books
Ages 3-6
“From the safety of their branch,
[five little monkeys] taunt Mr. Crocodile, who responds by snap,
snap, snapping. . . .A gleeful rendition of a happy, familiar
rhyme.”
—ALA Booklist
IRA/CBC Children’s Choice —1992
Other books about the monkeys...
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| The Story: |
Five little
monkeys and their Mama walk down to the river for a picnic supper.
While Mama takes a snooze, the five little monkeys climb a tree.
Why? To te ase Mr. Crocodile! "Can't catch me!" they shout,
and Mr. Crocodile opens his big mouth: SNAP! Oh no! Now there are
only four little monkeys! A second little monkey teases Mr. Crocodile,
he snaps his jaws, and that little monkey also disappears-or seems
to. The mischievous monkeys are up to their usual tricks in this
second rhythmic counting book about their disappearances-and surprise
reappearances.
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| Where did you get the idea?: |
This is another monkey
finger play that my daughter, Heather, brought home from school.
In the finger play, the monkeys disappear forever. I loved the
rhyme, but I didn't think a story about a crocodile eating the
five little monkeys would make a very happy picture book. When Five
Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed became so popular, I thought
about the second rhyme again. Maybe it just seemed that the crocodile
ate the monkeys. Maybe something else was going on...
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| Tidbits: |
Alligator or crocodile?
When I started working on this book, I was saying the rhyme with ". . . teasing
Mr Alligator . . ." But then I did a little homework and found that alligators
and monkeys don't live in the same places. However, some monkeys and some crocodiles
do.
The Illustrations:
- The drawings are pen and ink.
- The color is watercolor crayon.
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