Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake

Five little monkeys predictably make a mess trying to bake their mother a birthday cake, but the chaos is fun, and I love that Mama made preparations to sleep in and makes the most of a bad situation by hitting on some firefighting beefcake.

Five monkeys decide to bake a cake for their sleeping mother. The illustration style of pen and ink is fun and the characters are expressive and act in ways that children can relate to.A good book that involves counting and measurement. Good for a fun book for the classroom, but I might pick something prettier like Flotsam.

When I was little I remember reading the Five Little Monkeys books, so I was so excited to find them in the Children's library at UNO. I loved this book! Eileen Christelow uses repetition in this book, especially the phrase, "Sh-h-h! Don't wake up Mama!" to emphasize they were trying not to wake her, plus it's the title of the book! I think this is great book to read to kids because it can show them the importance of baking with an adult and not unsupervised! I also just like the personalities of the five little monkeys and think this series is adorable

Five Little Monkeys wake up on mama's birthday and tiptoe to the kitchen to bake her a cake. One monkey reads all the ingredients in the recipe and they start to stir it all up. One monkey sneezes and they all yell shhhhh don't wake up mama. They all make sure mama is still sleeping and she is. The next part of the recipe asks to add four eggs so the four monkeys add their eggs. The monkeys add the oil and one of them slips and falls. Then they yell shhhh dont wake up mama. They all go check and make sure mama is still sleeping and she is. Then, they put the cake in the oven and go upstairs to build her a present. They start to smell a burning smell and run downstairs to check on the cake. It over flowed in the oven and they all yelled show more shhhh don't wake up mama. Firemen arrive and they tell them there was no fire just cake over flowed. They all taste the cake and fireman says "it's not that bad just add icing." They run to wake up mama and surprise her with cake and her reply was "it's not my birthday today, my birthday is tomorrow." So the five little monkeys ask to eat the cake for breakfast and they do. One monkey whispers " we can bake another cake tomorrow" and the other monkeys reply "shhhh don't tell mama." I thought this book was very entertaining and the author keeps the reader wondering when mama will wake up. I recommend this book to k-3. A good question to ask students would be when did the monkeys mess up recipe? The four monkeys added their eggs not just four eggs. show less

Good vivid pictures and elements of definate suprise. As you watch the monkeys eager to help and making a mess they get distracted making a cake that is a mess. They love their mama and they make her breakfast on the wrong day making the book just a hoot. Monkeys are messy making this book really relate to kids. Grades 1-6

the little monkeys try to make mama a birthday cake. they end up burning it a bit so the fire department comes and helps them finish it. it ends up not being mamas birthday until tomorrow but they still eat cake for breakfast.
2 book

Same song new adventure! Now the monkeys bake a cake