Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day

Jim Panzee, the chimp known to the whole jungle as Grumpy Monkey, thinks he has found an easy way to be helpful. He offers to play mom for a day to a group of little animals, sure that it will be fun and not very hard at all.

The babies prove him wrong almost at once. One wants to be carried, another is hungry, and the requests pile up so fast that Jim cannot decide where to start. He tries hard to keep up, but when the little ones begin tumbling out of a tree, he is completely overwhelmed.

Then Jim's own mom swings down, scoops him up, settles the babies, and sets things right. In the calm that follows, Jim sees how much work parenting really is and how much steady, unconditional love his mother has given him. This warm, funny story in Suzanne Lang's Grumpy Monkey series is a gentle way for young readers to say thanks to the grown-ups who look after them. The book also comes with two pages of full-color stickers.