Monkey and Me

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This upbeat picture book has great read-aloud potential for responsive listening and extended play in storytimes. This affords an opportunity to use different verbs to describe movement and allow the children to predict what animal will follow.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. From hanging upside down like a bat to holding onto each other like elephants following behind each other. 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. Her first book, Wolves , was the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Illustration.It's nice because you have the beat along with the good story to keep the storytime group entertained and focused. Young children will love guessing what animal they are pretending to be, before shouting out the answers as the pages are turned to reveal the real creatures. I would read the book and and students would guess what animal monkey and the girl are going to see next. My autistic 3 year old daughter has had a favorite stuffed animal that is a sock monkey version of curious George.

The illustrations on each page show the little girl and her little monkey acting out the next animals behavior. 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. Not every kids book has to have a plot and riveting writing, but this one wasn't so much a book as a jumble of words with boring illustrations. 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! Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett, twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, is a beautifully illustrated story full of animal fun – perfect for cheeky monkeys everywhere!We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.

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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 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). Her first picture book WOLVES was published in August 2005 to great acclaim, winning the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and a clutch of other awards it marked the beginning of a stellar career creating extraordinary books for children. I love the use of play that the child uses in pretending to be like the animals they are going to see.

After a couple of readings, children will surely anticipate the next page with little to no prompting. I think that this really illustrates how much children actually know about things we wouldnt expect them to know about. The second group did not consist of newbies, but they are always significantly smaller and either not responsive or a bit too exuberantly responsive.Usually, when a child has a long day, she will end up falling fast asleep, even in the most random setting, in this case it is at the kitchen table with a spoon in her hand. Each page features the same rhyme leading up to a different animal that the two are pretending to be. And every time they see an animal, the kids could act out something (march like penguins, jump like kangaroos, etc. My favorite part of the story is when the girl and her monkey discover the kangaroo and she puts Monkey in her shirt as if she had a pouch, too. We have been borrowing this book from the library, on and off for about 2 years and I finally decided that it is one to keep so have finally bought it.