Girl Giant and the Monkey King

Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business

The Monkey That Would Not Kill

Tales from the Hood

Something I Said

The River of Wind

Tua and the Elephant

Valley of Cobras

The chimpanzee gazed at me and then opened the palm of its hand. Using two fingers of its other hand it pretended to scoop up make-believe food into its mouth. It was talking to me! Telling me it was hungry. I had found a monster in the haunted house and it was asking for my help. How great was that? This was a secret worth more than anything.

'Don't be scared,' I whispered. 'I'll look after you.'

When nine-year-old Beanie discovers a scared and hungry chimpanzee in a deserted house he vows to protect him. But where did Malcolm the chimp come from, how does he know sign language and who are the sinister men pursuing him?

One brave boy, one escaped chimpanzee, one adventure of a lifetime.

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Girl Giant and the Monkey King

Van Hoang, 2020

Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Business

John Erickson, Gerald L. Holmes, 1990

The Monkey That Would Not Kill

Henry Drummond, 1897

Tales from the Hood

Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson, 2008

Something I Said

Ben Bailey Smith, 2021

The River of Wind

Kathryn Lasky, 2007

Tua and the Elephant

R.P. Harris, Taeeun Yoo, 2011

Valley of Cobras

Hergé, 1957