Five little monkeys get ready for bed and say goodnight to Mama.
Trouble lies ahead, though.
One after another, the five little monkeys fall off and get hurt. But it's an old finger play and jump rope rhyme that has been chanted by generations of children. I first heard it from my daughter, Heather, who learned it in first grade. But I wasn't an author and illustrator of children's books then-although I was trying to be. Eight years later, when I was the author of five or six books, I remembered the monkey rhyme and decided to adapt it into a book.