This week we took home 5 books, and of these, the toddler had two rather unexpected favorites: Banana! by Ed Vere We have read this book just about a million zillion times. The toddler insists on hearing it over and over again, to the point where I’m not sure if I love the author of this book or hate him with an all-consuming passion. The illustrations are whimsical and silly, though I have to admit it took a while for them to grow on me. They kind of remind me of MS Paint dr

I’m taking another vacation from my blog. So here’s a cute picture from flickr (photo by SimonWhitaker) to tide you over. #monkeys #photos #reading

I’m off celebrating my birthday someplace warm. I’ll be back next week with another exciting blog post. Till then, here’s a picture of a baby monkey: image by Mohd Khomaini Bin Mohd Sidik #animalphoto #monkeys

It’s the last day of Monkey Week! I thought I’d wrap things up with some cute baby monkey pictures and some haikus. Cute Baby Monkey Sleeps upon her mother’s back To stay warm and snug from: swamibu / CC BY-NC 2.0 from: dutts303 / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 from: Scott Kinmartin / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Monkey swings by tail Under branches Over streams Eats shoots, ants, and leaves #monkeys #haiku #blogseries #monkeyweek #photos

It’s Monkey Week Day #4! Today I’ve got another list of books, but this time we’re discussing MG/YA books featuring monkey characters. In order by author: 1. City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende (via @exmoorjane) 2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 3. Monkey Magic: The Curse of the Mukada by Grant S. Clark (great title, but seems to feature orangutans, which are apes, not monkeys) 4. The Monkey Thief By Aileen Kilgore Henderson 5. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Aslan the Golden Lion Tamarin You’ve heard of book mashups right? Where you take two different types of stories and mix them up? Like in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Well today I’m going to give you 10 ideas for Monkey Mashups: Hairy Potter and the Chamber of Secret Bananas: Hairy is worried when he can hear monkeys talking through the walls at Monkeywarts. Anne the Monkey of Green Gables: The Cuthberts are really surprised when they get a little monkey instead of a littl

It’s Day 2 of Monkey Week here at Monkey Poop! Today I thought I’d share: 8 Monkey-tastic Board Books That's Not my Monkey by Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow Five Silly Monkeys A Playful Counting Book By Susie Brooks and Debbie Tarbett Funny Faces: Charlie Monkey By Roger Priddy What do Monkeys do? by Dee Phillips Mandy Monkey

I’ve decided to declare this week Monkey Week here at Monkey Poop in honor of my two year blogaversary! Okay, so the anniversary was actually about a month and a half ago, but whatever. Close enough! (This blog post is to be read to the tune of “Monkey” by Harry Belafonte from “Jump Up Calypso”–see the Animaniacs version below) First things first—why monkeys? I’m not really sure why. If I ever figure out the answer to that, I’ll probably have to let my family know first. One

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