Children's Fiction Apes, Monkeys, Etc.
Duff's Monkey Business
- Publisher
- Formac Publishing Company Limited
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2000
- Category
- Apes, Monkeys, etc.
- Recommended Age
- 5 to 10
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 5
- Recommended Reading age
- 5 to 10
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780887804991
- Publish Date
- Jan 2000
- List Price
- $14.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887804984
- Publish Date
- Jan 2000
- List Price
- $5.95
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Description
There is almost nothing extraordinary that Duff hasn't seen - flying saucers, stray elephants, international spies. So, when he reports finding a real live monkey in the family barn, no one believes him except for his best friend Simon. Simon helps him look after the mysterious monkey, but their friends and family are convinced that their monkey stories are all from their over-active imaginations. Just when everyone has had enough of Duff's tall tales a circus comes to town minus it's star monkey. Could Duff be telling the truth after all?
About the authors
Budge Wilson (b. 1927) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and lived in Kingston, Ontario, before moving back to North West Cove, Nova Scotia. A former commercial artist and photographer, she has written more than twenty books, many of them for children and young adults; her awards include the Ann Connor Brimer Award for children's literature. "Mr. Manuel Jenkins" is included in her story collecton The Leaving (Anansi, 1991).
Kim La Fave, a Governor General's Award-winning artist, is the illustrator of Amos's Sweater (by Janet Lunn) -- winner of the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for illustration -- Follow That Star (by Kenneth Oppel), I Am Small (by Cherrie Fitch), the bestselling The Bones and Skeleton Book (by Steven Cumbaa) and many other children's books. He lives in Roberts Creek, BC.
Editorial Reviews
This story reads quickly and keeps the readers attention. I would recommend other books in this first novels series.
2nd grade, MacKenzie School, Liberty, NY
This story reads quickly and keeps the readers attention. I would recommend other books in this first novels series.
2nd grade, MacKenzie School, Liberty, NY
This story reads quickly and keeps the readers attention. I would recommend other books in this first novels series.
2nd grade, MacKenzie School, Liberty, NY
