Title: Tana the Useless Monkey
Description: The annual Blessing of the Animals ceremony is coming up and Tana wants Manuelito, her trouble-making monkey, included. But at this funny and heart-warming story's time, the church was blessing only useful animals. Things get serious when tax collectors show up to make sure that all the local animals have been declared for tax purposes, which they have not been.  Manuelito saves the day--and gets his blessing.
Subjects: monkey, Animals, fiction, Children's fiction
Places: Cuba
Time periods: any time since the Castro revolution