Monkey and Me

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My youngest child has always struggled to sit through a book (quite opposite to my eldest) but this book has captivated her.

The two are partners in crime throughout the book, acting out different animals and keeping readers guessing what is to come next. Her first book, Wolves , was the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Illustration.In two cases, the text seems to hop like the kangaroos and swing like the monkeys with whom they share the pages. I love the sketchy vibe of the illustrations paired with the softness of watercolor or almost chalk like colors. 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. I had the children come up one at a time and look at the page where she was pretending and tell me what it looked like she was doing. Every other page has the rhythm of "Monkey and me, monkey and me, we went to see, we went to see some.

Emily Gravett is twice winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award for WOLVES and LITTLE MOUSE'S BIG BOOK OF FEARS.I would reconmend this book to small children in the more emergent stages of reading because it offers many characteristics which are important for this stage (such as rhyme and rhythm). In Monkey and Me, there is not a lot of repetitive sounds, but there is a lot of guessing what is to come on the next page. Through the use of ellipses, as the little girl's energy wanes, so does the visual representation of the text.

This would work best for a child at the first stages of learning to read, as it not only uses the same few words over and over but also has visual cues to help guess the non-repeated words.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett, twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, is a beautifully illustrated story full of animal fun – p erfect for cheeky monkeys everywhere! With a handful of colors Emily Gravett really does focus more on portraying the animals and giving true understanding for the reader of what each animal does.

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I think that many little kids can relate to having a favorite stuffed animal and imagining themselves going on adventures with it.