It’s a great wind down book, as it’s short and sweet, and also perfect to get kids moving, doing the actions for each animal and making their noises. Publisher’s Weekly: This review was less critical, primarily describing the plot and the illustrations in the book. I love the sketchy vibe of the illustrations paired with the softness of watercolor or almost chalk like colors.

Because of the number of children, with some I had them tell me an action the actual animal does when we were on their page (e.After a couple of readings, children will surely anticipate the next page with little to no prompting. The second group did not consist of newbies, but they are always significantly smaller and either not responsive or a bit too exuberantly responsive. Every time an animal is introduced the name of it is shown in large, bold, black, capital letters and then there is a picture of said animals. A little girl takes her stuffed monkey to see other animals like elephants and eventually monkeys, imitating each animal, then falls asleep.

Her first book, Wolves , was the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Illustration. and the animal they want to see is discovered in a fun and colorful way when the reader turns the page.We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. For example, the little girl will say "Monkey and me, Monkey and me, Monkey and me we want to see, we want to see some. My autistic 3 year old daughter has had a favorite stuffed animal that is a sock monkey version of curious George. I love the use of play that the child uses in pretending to be like the animals they are going to see. Because , even when the book is not in sight my children have both repeated the rhythmic and repetitive story to me - it's pretty amazing to hear this from such young children.

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. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.I thought that after the surprises of the first reading had been discovered, my kids might lose interest in the book, but my three year old has been chanting the words, in a sing-song voice, 'monkey and me, monkey and me,' and asking to read it over and over. I believe children could easily relate to this book because animals are universal-no matter where we live, we see some sort of an animal at some time or another. The illustrations on each page show the little girl and her little monkey acting out the next animals behavior. Creo que en general, el libro está bien para bebés y niños muy pequeños, pero si son más mayores, se les puede quedar corto. I would have liked some strong verbs to be used like jumping for the kangaroos and waddling for the penguins.