Books like Eight Silly Monkeys
Eight Silly Monkeys
2003, Steve Haskamp
4.9/5
Needless to say, my three-month-old daughter's face lights up each time I hold this book up over her and say "monkeys!" She really enjoys the bright colors and (I think) the silly monkey faces that gradually disappear from the pages as we go along. To be honest, now that we've read it dozens of times, she tends to get distracted by the time four monkeys are eating on the bed, but it remains one of our favorites. Neither of us cares for the ending, which neither rhymes with the rest of the book nor offers us any clues that the monkeys have learned their lessons after they fell off the bed one by one. Still, we enjoy Eight Silly Monkeys: it's a quick read, brightly illustrated, and I can now repeat it in its entirety in my sleep.