In our house we are big fans of the lovely picture story books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, so when my daughter received Monkey Puzzle, as her leaving present from her nursery, it was a very welcome addition to our collection. This writing and illustrating duo produce really fun stories accompanied by the most wonderful illustrations, and this book is no exception. Monkey Puzzle tells the story of a little monkey who has lost his mummy and a butterfly who helps to find her. One of the things that I like about the book is that the whole story takes the form of a conversation between the two. On the first page you see a wonderful picture of ...  Read the complete review

Monkey Puzzle, penned by Julia Donaldson, is a simple tale about a baby monkey who loses his mum and a friendly butterfly who helps him find her. But the search is not quite as straight-forward as you would think because the butterfly does not understand that the monkey's mum looks just like him. Instead the butterfly repeatedly mistakes a host of other animals from an elephant to a bat as the monkey's mum. The reason for the butterfly's blunder is revealed later in the story. Monkey Puzzle is written by the same author as the now widely known tale of the Gruffalo. This book is however by no means an inferior work to its more famous counterpart, ...  Read the complete review

Monkey Puzzle is by the well known children's author Julia Donaldson and like with many of her well known loved books she has teamed with Axel Scheffler. Julia Donaldson is well known for The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's child, Room on the broom and many others. She is one of my son's favourite authors and I really enjoy her books too. I think that is the main success to her books not only does the child become engaged in the book adults love reading them to their children too, win win. Our collection of her books is slowly growing and this is one we have had for quite a while now but really enjoy. Monkey puzzle is a lovely story which does start off on a ...  Read the complete review

A little monkey loses his mum in the jungle and a butterfly offers to help the monkey find her. It sounds like an incredibly simple premise for a book and it is, however, for me this is one of the best books by the excellent children's author, Julia Donaldson as it is informative and helps children learn about animals as well as being written in a style of rhyming prose which is fun and easy to listen to for even the smallest children. Written by Donaldson, the story follows the monkey as they explain to the butterfly what their mum looks like and the helpful butterfly keeps showing the wrong animals based on the brief description given, the story ...  Read the complete review

Monkey Puzzle is another favourite of my kids, they love having it read to them at bedtime and it is one of the few kids books that I quite enjoy as well! It is written by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, published by MacMillan and our copy cost £5.99. It is a lovely story about a little monkey who has lost his mum. A kind butterfly comes along and offers to help him find her. The monkey describes his mum to the butterfly but only describes one feature each time which causes a lot of confusion. The butterfly finds all kinds of animals based on the little monkeys description but none of them are quite right. The text is ...  Read the complete review