Monkey business
Subtitle: stories from around the world
By: Shirley Climo ; illustrated by Erik Brooks
Contributors: Brooks, Erik, 1972- ill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780805063929
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Monkeys; Folklore
Description: If someone is a monkey dodger what does he do? A collection of fourteen stories, facts, and lore about monkeys from around the world. This definitive collection of fourteen stories, facts, and lore about monkeys from Africa, Asia, and the Americas will answer all of the monkey questions you never knew you had. With lavish full color illustrations, this is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-118).
Table of contents: title: Why a monkey's not a man: a West African fable; title: The people of the trees: a story from the Congo; title: Bassa proverb, Ivory Coast; title: The monkey, the rats, the cheese: a Cape Verde Islands tale; title: The baboon and the shark: a folktale from Liberia; title: Gola proverb, West Africa; title: Monkey ancestors: Lemurs in Madacasgar; title: Speaking of monkeys; title: The first monkeys: a myth from Mexico; title: The spider monkey's close shave: a Brazilian folktale; title: So say the little monkeys: a tale from Amazonia; title: Traveling monkeys; title: Tasi and the oranges: a Brazilian Indian folktale; title: When is a monkey not a monkey?; title: The monkey keeper: a Chinese parable; title: Monkey sign language; title: The snow monkey and the boar: a story of old Japan; title: The stone monkey: a legend from China; title: Proverb, Hong Kong; title: Uncle Monkey and the ghosts: a Filipino folktale; title: Proverb, India; title: Prince Rama and the monkey chieftain: from the Ramayana, an epic poem from India; title: Monkey trivia.