Monkey Puzzle
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By Julia Donaldson, and and, Axel Scheffler
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346 reviews
""I’ve lost my mum!""
Where is Monkey’s mummy? It’s not too much fun being lost in the jungle, and little monkey wants his mum. Kindly butterfly is keen to help, but they don’t seem to be having much luck and keep finding the wrong animals! But eventually, they find . . . Dad! It’s just as well that he knows exactly where mum is, and she’s waiting with a well-deserved cuddle.
Monkey Puzzle is a clever, funny and charming tale from the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. This edition features the classic story with a stunning, redesigned cover and beautiful finish, making it a must-have addition to the bookshelves of all Donaldson and Scheffler fans – big and small!
Also available with redesigned covers are The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, The Smartest Giant in Town, Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book, and A Squash and a Squeeze.
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One of our core texts for our topic animal magic.
I noticed that there were lots of rhyming words. My favourite character was the monkey. I would recommend this book to my cousin Emily.
Really enjoyed this book, particularly enjoyed the rhyming words, it made me think of rhyming words and come up with my own
It is nice when monkey finds his mummy.
I liked trying to guess which animal would be next
Read it because it's about a monkey who tries to find his mum.
I like that he gets confused with all the animals, he is very cute
I like this story
I like monkeys
Funny story, trying to find his mum and most of animals mums and theirs children looks almost the same. Only some animals not.
This was a fun read and my parents used to read this to me when I was little so now I decided to read it to them! I liked the butterfly best as he was crazy! I’d recommend this book!
One of my favourites from a baby. It helped me learn different animals.
Enjoyable trying to guess the next animal
We lived trying to guess the next animal
I love all these books . They all have animals in and they’re my favourite so I do really love reading them
It was super good because I liked the animals. The monkey was sad at the start then he was mad when he said ‘No,NO,NO!’ At the end the money was happy with his Mum and Dad.
The butterfly was funny in this story as she kept getting the animals wrong.
My favourite was the monkey, it was a happy story. My favourite was when the monkey found his mom.
I enjoyed this story
Good story but very easy and for younger readers.
Good read
It's very funny
He saw lots of animals when he was looking for his Mam.
I loved it when Mam and Dad cuddled baby monkey at the end.
He thought the butterfly was so kind in this book trying so hard to go around the jungle and find the monkeys mum.
I loved it when he found his mum and they snuggled.
Good
I liked it because it was funny, particularly when the monkey says "no no no!"
We liked This book as there was lots of different animals along the way in the story,
I liked this book because it teaches you to ask for help
