Naughty Little Monkeys Book and Audio CD Set (Paperback)

Twenty-six naughty little monkeys engage in wild antics when their human parents unwisely leave them alone one evening. Andy flies paper airplanes, Brooke jumps on the bed, and Carla eats chocolate cake. Their behavior grows steadily more boisterous as Xavier bangs his xylophone and Yates breaks a street lamp with his yo-yo. The parents arrive home in time to send the monkeys to bed and seemingly threaten to send them away. However, on the last page, the whole family is shown on an outing at the zoo. On full-page spreads of various rooms in the house, Cole vividly sets the stage for the expressively animated creatures to wreak havoc. Every child feels like a mischievous monkey from time to time, longing to break the rules with cheerful abandon. Cole imaginatively expresses that impulse in the large-scale, comical paintings, while Aylesworth's rhyming text bounces along merrily. A natural for reading aloud to the alphabet set.