A boy purchases a stuffed monkey, and spends a busy day with it. As the boy and his mother bicycle home in the rain, the monkey falls unnoticed. When the boy realizes the monkey is lost, they search for it, but it has been dragged beneath a tree by a mischief of mice. The monkey gets pushed and pulled until the mice use it to block the entrance to their tree from a sneaky hedgehog. The hedgehog carefully carries the monkey back to his family, and they cuddle and play with it until it is carried away by a large bird. The bird eventually drops it into a small body of water and the toy shop owner fishes it out, fixes and cleans it, and is reunited with the boy after a long and arduous journey.
Filled with suspense and tension, readers will enjoy following the improbable chain of events and predicting what may happen next.
Monkie [Monkey] by Dieter Schubert. The Netherlands: Lemniscaat, 2011. [9789060696408]
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