This picture book is about 5 little monkeys begging their sitter for just "one more" game of hide-n-seek. Their mother has gone dancing and the monkeys convince their sitter for game after game until their mom finally comes home. All night the sitter has tried to get the monkeys to bed, but gives in to each game of hide-n-seek. The monkeys think she is finding them too easily so they find a good hiding place in bed where the sitter will never think to look!

This book was very amusing to me because the monkeys convince their sitter for "one more" game after she repeatedly tells them this is the last one. I find this funny because my son is always asking for "one more" cookie, story, etc. And just as the monkeys in the story, most children will beg for just "one more" until they fall asleep!

In the classroom the children might have fun finding and counting the monkeys behind the curtains or in the tree and I read the story aloud. In a young class the children could color sheep and number them 1-10. Then, we could count them as a class. In an older classroom, each student could color one sheep and each be numbered 1-24 (depending on how many students). Then, each student could read the number aloud to promote the sequence of numbers. ( )

Age Appropriateness: Primary
Genre: Fantasy
Media: Ink and Wash
Charactarization: Lulu is a flat and static character. We do not know very much about her and she does not change or develop much throughout the story. She comes to babysit the five little monkeys and gives into everything they say at the begining of the story and does the same all the way to the end of the story. The little monkeys get away with anything they want when Lulu is watching them.
Review: This is a good example of Fantasy because it makes the idea of monkeys living in a house and having a babysitter come over seem possible. The five little monkeys avoid going to bed by playing hide and go seek with their babysitter. ( )