Busy Monkeys

John Schindel. Tricycle Press, $6.99 (20pp) ISBN 978-1-58246-082-6

John Schindel follows up Busy Penguins with Busy Monkeys, photographed by Luiz Claudio Marigo. Playful couplets enumerate their activities: ""Monkey hiding/ Monkey riding/ Monkey leaping/ Monkey creeping."" Full-color photographs of South American and Arican monkeys transport readers to the rain forest.

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