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Gr 3-6 This well-told and entertaining book of monkey lore draws on pourquoi and folktales, mythology, facts, and trivia. The book is organized geographically, and the author has matched each story with a specific species of monkey. An annotated bibliography gives further details about the stories and Climo's decisions on how to retell them. Whi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Smoothly adapted from a broad array of identified sources, the fourteen tales in this far-ranging collection are organized into three sections—monkeys in Africa and Madagascar, monkeys in the Americas, and monkeys in Asia. Proverbs from several countries are scattered among the stories, which include fables, a myth, legends, and folktal...Log In or Sign Up to Read More