Manky Monkey. written by Jean Willis and illustrated by Tony Ross. (Anderson, 9.99)
As we might expect from this consistent author-artist duo, the ideas come thick and fast - and generate plenty of giggles. The rhyming text moves along in a sing-song fashion as it explains the evolutionary pro-cess from monkey to human.
Page one features a monkey who is discontent with his lot, and the last page features a little girl eating a banana and holding a monkey's hand.
You will probably find that the story stimulates questions about where humans came from. And here we aren't only going back as far as gestation inside a mother's tummy, but are transported back to our first manky monkey descendant. This interpretation might niggle Creationists, but I find it irresistible.
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