No Touch Monkey!
Title | No Touch Monkey! PDF eBook |
Author | Ayun Halliday |
Publisher | Seal Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1580056024 |
Ayun Halliday may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the most outrageous, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionada of pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps even more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceed by Lauren Bacall. On layover in Amsterdam, Halliday finds unlikely trouble in the red-light district—eliciting the ire of a tiny, violent madam, and is forced to explain tampons to luggage-searching soldiers in Kashmir: "They're for ladies. Bleeding ladies." A self-admittedly bumbling tourist, Halliday shares—with razor-sharp wit and to hilarious effect—the travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell. This second edition includes an updated foreword.
Never Smile at a Monkey
Title | Never Smile at a Monkey PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Jenkins |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 37 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 061896620X |
Discover how dangerous an animal can be when it feels threatened or trapped.
No Monkeys, No Chocolate
Title | No Monkeys, No Chocolate PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Stewart |
Publisher | Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-07-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 163289792X |
Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist? This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees couldn’t survive without the help of a menagerie of rain forest critters: a pollen-sucking midge, an aphid-munching anole lizard, brain-eating coffin fly maggots—they all pitch in to help the cocoa tree survive. A secondary layer of text delves deeper into statements such as "Cocoa flowers can’t bloom without cocoa leaves . . . and maggots," explaining the interdependence of the plants and animals in the tropical rain forests. Two wise-cracking bookworms appear on every page, adding humor and further commentary, making this book accessible to readers of different ages and reading levels. Back matter includes information about cocoa farming and rain forest preservation, as well as an author’s note.
That's Not My Monkey
Title | That's Not My Monkey PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Watt |
Publisher | Usborne Pub Limited |
Total Pages | 10 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780794521783 |
Young readers may touch various surfaces on monkeys that are not the one someone is looking for, until at last the right one appears. On board pages.
Monkey See, Look at Me!
Title | Monkey See, Look at Me! PDF eBook |
Author | Lorena Siminovich |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2012-07-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 110164401X |
A playful and eye-catching story about showing off and sharing The founder of popular children's décor brand Petit Collage brings her signature collage style and modern, kid-friendly sensibility to picture books with this story of an attention-seeking little monkey with a great big imagination. When Monkey jumps high, he decides he must be a rabbit. When he roars, Monkey just knows he must be a lion--until Lion shows him how loudly a real lion can roar. In this playful game of "monkey see, monkey do," Monkey and his animal friends share what makes each of them special just the way they are.
Year of the Monkey
Title | Year of the Monkey PDF eBook |
Author | Patti Smith |
Publisher | Knopf Canada |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0735279292 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
Grumpy Monkey Oh, No! Christmas
Title | Grumpy Monkey Oh, No! Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Lang |
Publisher | Random House Studio |
Total Pages | 33 |
Release | 2021-09-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0593306090 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jim Panzee, our favorite grumpy monkey, is feeling like quite the Scrooge this holiday season! It's Christmas time in the jungle, and Jim just can't get into the holiday spirit. Then Jim eats a "festive" green banana that makes him feel sick. Now everything seems worse. While all the other animals in the jungle are ready and eagerly awaiting Christmas, Jim can't stop feeling that this time of year stinks. But with his good friend Norman's help, Jim discovers that focusing on the good things around him instead of his own problems, is a reason to celebrate.