Monkey Business: A Jungle Pop-Up

Paul Stickland, Paul Strickland. Handprint Books, $17.95 (12pp) ISBN 978-1-929927-49-4

Monkeys, jokes and other high-interest topics take center stage in several interactive books. Monkey Business: A Jungle Pop-Up by Paul Stickland features an impressive display of paper engineering as the monkey stars gather all the jungle creatures together to meet their new arrivals (baby monkeys). The monkeys pop out of bushes, elephants wave their trunks, a tiger leaps out at readers and a forest scene recaps the entire cast, complete with a rainbow.

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