Suitabook
Monkey business
Magriet Kruger
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Magriet Kruger. Illustrator: Brice Reignier. Designer: Wilna Combrinck. Editor: Katie Huston.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Monkey business (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause over the pictures and let the child act out or describe an animal’s movement; then compare how the book shows different animals spending their time.
- Themes
- Play as work: The book calls monkeys’ climbing, searching, swinging and other play their important job, and says it is hard work. The playful activities are presented positively as meaningful effort, rather than as idleness.
- Animal ways of living: Brief explanations describe elephants using trunks to find water, rhinos following paths, and hippos eating grass near a river. These examples make the book’s animal focus informational as well as playful.
- Worth knowing
- Monkeys are shown picking fleas from one another and jumping into water; these are brief, matter-of-fact animal behaviours rather than scenes of harm.