Monkey Week: 10 Monkey Mashups

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:

1. Hairy Potter and the Chamber of Secret Bananas: Hairy is worried when he can hear monkeys talking through the walls at Monkeywarts.

2. Anne the Monkey of Green Gables: The Cuthberts are really surprised when they get a little monkey instead of a little boy.

3. The Secret Garden of Monkeys: Mary Lennox is surprised to find a secret garden full of monkeys at the manor.

4. Winnie-the-Monkeyish-Pooh: Silly old Monkey!

5. The Graveyard Monkey Book: oh wait. this was based on the Jungle book, maybe this isn’t much of a mashup.

6. Bridge to Monkeybithia: A sad story about a boy who befriends a monkey. The monkey shows him a magical madeup world but there is a very sad ending. (I probably wouldn’t be able to read this book!)

7. The Monkey, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Features Aslan as a golden Lion Tamarin

8. Are you there God, it’s me, Monkey: Where a little girl monkey confronts her puberty issues. <–great for the preteen monkeys in your household

9. Charlie and the Banana Factory: Charlie, a sweet little monkey, finds the Golden Sticker on a Willy Wonka Banana and gets to tour the magical Banana Factory along with four bratty little monkeys.

and last but not least…

1. Twilight: New Monkey: Just one word–Weremonkeys!

Have any great ideas for a Monkey Mashup?

Photo by: Tambako the Jaguar / CC BY-ND 2.0

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Monkey Week: 8 Monkey-tastic Board Books

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 by Richard Powell and Katy Rhodes

Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett

Enjoy!

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Monkey Week at Monkey Poop!

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 of my novels is about a girl with a pet monkey named Ee-ee. And secretly I think he’s actually the best character in the whole story (don’t tell my main character though!). When I was a kid, my favorite animals were actually cheetahs. I’m not sure when monkeys took over. My mom thinks its strange I like monkeys since she always thought they were scary and annoying when she was growing up in India. (Monkeys like to steal and snatch things away from you.)

Why monkey poop?

Hmm…another good question. Poop is just a funny word I guess. As you can tell, I am incredibly mature for my age.

Some made up monkey vocabulary:

To keep this writing related, today we will go over some monkey vocabulary. Here are 3 monkey-related phrases that I use regularly:

“That’s so monkey!” — when something is lame. “You’re such a monkey.” — when someone is being really silly. Usually accompanied by a shake of the head. “You totally monkey-packed it.” — when you haven’t packed things in your suitcase properly and everything is just shoved in.

And here’s a word I have just coined and will use for the rest of the week: Monkey-tastic.

Some real monkey phrases and vocabulary from the dictionary

monkey bars monkey bread monkey business monkey engine: a pile-driving machine consisting of a heavy hammer or ram working vertically in a groove. monkey flower monkey jacket monkey puzzle monkey suit monkey wrench monkeyshines<–I like this one

That’s it for today! Come by tomorrow for some more monkey-related awesomeness. And here is the monkey-tastic video I promised:

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