The gimmick here is that you can put your hand through the back of the book to make monkey's mouth move like a puppet. The rest of the book isn't anything special. The story about monkey playing tricks on the other jungle animals before they play a trick on him isn't much cop, plus it is short, and doesn't even rhyme like a lot of books aimed at this age group do. The pictures are your standard fare - nice and colourful, a bit like the style of Squiglet from Get Squiggling on CBeebies - but on one side you have a massive hole and on the other you have the monkey mouth poking through so most of the page is already taken.
But my daughter (who's coming up to 2) does like the monkey mouth, either when it is trying to eat her, or when she controls it so I can't just dismiss the book completely. But a fluffy puppet would be better for that job methinks.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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