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“The Annotated Frankenstein…should appeal to scholars familiar with the novel as well as those exploring it for the first time. The editors, Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald Levao, situate the novel in its philosophical, literary, biographical and historical contexts, and provide apt illustrations and useful appendices (including examinations of the revised edition of 1831 and a timeline which juxtaposes the novel’s episodes with concurrent historical events). Its expansive, cream-coloured pages and generous margins render the volume a world unto itself, while emphasizing the worldly issues Shelley addressed in her uncanny tale.”―Michael Saler, Times Literary Supplement“First published in 1818, very possibly the most famous debut novel in English, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Or, The New Prometheus has never been out of print. Far fewer people have read this somewhat difficult and didactic novel than know, or think that they know, who ‘Frankenstein’ was; long ago, the grotesque figure of Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster became detached from its literary context, as from its creator. Highly recommended is The Annotated Frankenstein, edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald Levao, who seem to know, between them, all that there is to know about Frankenstein, including his myriad cinematic metamorphoses over the decades.”―Joyce Carol Oates, Globe and Mail“The Annotated Frankenstein, edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald L. Levao, brings scholarship to life for the lay reader. This latest volume in the irresistible ‘annotated’ series from Harvard University Press presents the 1818 edition on oversize, creamy-white pages divided into two columns. While the story runs down the inside columns, helpful commentary runs alongside. Every geographical, biographical and literary allusion is explained; themes are highlighted; and obscure words are defined. A hundred color illustrations sprinkled throughout reproduce manuscript pages, works of art, medical etchings, portraits of Shelley and her friends, and scenes from movie treatments of this deathless tale.”―Ron Charles, Washington Post“The Annotated Frankenstein is a well-chosen collection of parts animated by a knowledgeable introduction; beyond that, it is a comprehensive work of breadth, depth, and interest enriched by over one hundred high-quality images. It is a beautiful, amiable companion… The Annotated Frankenstein achieves the editors’ ambitious goals… It offers the pleasures of a gift book while also providing readers with the fruits of decades of scholarship. Images, texts, and annotations together form an edition that is reputable, accurate, and insightful but also something more. Readers can luxuriate in the rich contexts the editors present… In beginning his story, Victor Frankenstein has insisted that intellectual pursuit provides ‘continual food for discovery and wonder.’ The success of The Annotated Frankenstein is that it allows Mary Shelley’s novel to do the same.”―Meoghan Cronin, Essays in Criticism“Mary Shelley’s classic tale of the doctor who awakened a monster gets an expanded treatment in the edition edited by Wolfson and Levao. This new treatment includes notes on Shelley’s life and highlights literary allusions within the book.”―Molly Driscoll, Christian Science Monitor“First published in 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, has fascinated, horrified, alarmed and even enchanted us ever since. In fact, as the editors of this usefully and delightfully annotated and illustrated edition make clear, almost as soon as the book was published, the word ‘Frankenstein’ (so often wrongfully ascribed to the monster and not his creator) became synonymous with anything new, especially disturbing developments in science and technology. This edition will improve greatly one’s understanding of the book’s provenance and its era.”―Globe and Mail“This is a serious work of interpretation. Wolfson and Levao offer the most extensively annotated edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in print, a book that serves the educated but nonspecialist reader.”―J. T. Lynch, Choice“This new edition of Shelley’s nearly 200-year-old novel is replete with supplements―explanatory notes, scholarly introductions, and other special features―that enhance the text itself. Wolfson and Levao provide useful information on the author’s milieu, including details about her parents, friends, and husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, focusing on the latter’s contributions to the novel’s birth and development.”―Morris Hounion, Library Journal“An impressive addition to the study of Frankenstein. While ideal for students of English, this book is accessible enough for anyone desiring a deeper reading of the novel, and does just what a well-annotated work should do, shedding a bright light not only on the text in question, but also on its historical moment and literary forebears.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Wolfson and Levao revivify the original 1818 version of Shelley’s classic in this illuminating annotated text. Beginning with a thoroughly researched introduction to the author’s life and the ‘life’ of Frankenstein, Wolfson and Levao draw parallels between the novel’s themes and the losses and turmoil that plagued Shelley. Moving along, their commentary draws from an abundance of criticism, focusing primarily on the novel’s allusions to Paradise Lost, Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ and the myth of Prometheus. At a more local level, the duo dutifully notate Shelley’s ingenious use of language and her husband’s edits. This book is accessible enough for anyone desiring a deeper reading of the novel, and does just what a well-annotated work should do, shedding a bright light not only on the text in question, but also on its historical moment and literary forebears.”―Gabe Habash, Publishers Weekly

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Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University.

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Hardcover: 400 pages

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Critical ed. edition (October 31, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674055527

ISBN-13: 978-0674055520

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Meant for serious scholars of this work or of any of it's peripheral texts and papers. Contains a plethora of original documents, manuscripts, film stills, paintings, and tons of Shelly's personal writings. A great book for someone who wants to dig deeper into Frankenstein than just textual knowledge.

The point of an edition like this is the annotations. On the one hand, any explanatory notes are interesting, but the notes here are disappointing on two counts. First, there aren't enough of them. There are numerous 2-page spreads with no notes at all. There are any number of interesting subjects that should get notes and don't. Second, more than half of the notes are attempts to validate the editors' interpretation of Frankenstein (which I happen to agree with). Far too many notes consist of "Look! Look! She wrote 'wretch' again!!" and "Percy changed this to 'being,' but Mary changed it back to 'wretch' in 1831." Easily a quarter of the notes show that Mary was thinking about Paradise Lost when she wrote the book. Well, duh. And yes, most people capable of reading Frankenstein only need to be reminded once or twice who Adam, Eve, and Satan are.Getting the negatives out of the way: The quality of the book is shocking. It's easy to get used to getting beautiful books from Harvard and the Belknap Press. This isn't one of them. The notes are printed in a brown ink not very contrasty with the off-white paper and worse, the boards of my copy were so warped, out the packing box, that the cover hovers a good 10 degrees above the book. I have the book under about 20 pounds of other books in hopes that it will flatten. This is the risk of buying on-line, by the way. This copy would never have left a brick and mortar store in this condition.That said, the book is an interesting read. With the editors pointing and waving, it's easier to see how distorted the story has been by its popular acceptance. We've all grown up with the idea that the monster is, well, a monster. We've had evil monsters, vicious monsters, monsters who were unfortunately given bad-guy brains. Even "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (which isn't, the editors remark with wry accuracy) by Kenneth Branagh gives us an evil monster. And it adds insult to injury by making the plot a "love story" (one thing it emphatically is NOT) that results in Victor trying his reanimation stunt, with predictably bad results, on the dead Elizabeth. We've had crazy Victors, criminal Victors, Byronic Victors (on the bizarre notion that because the Shelleys knew Byron, they must have worshiped him), and well-meaning Victors, but the key to Shelley's vision was the monster, and he's never had his chance to defend himself, except in the novel, where his defense is eloquent. Those few chapters in which the Creature (as the editors call him) tells his own story (however compromised by the multiple narrative layers) make him the most sympathetic character in the novel.The Creature is presented in the novel as an abandoned child. It spends its first two years trying to make sense of a world it knows nothing about (while Shelley uses its experience to critique Rousseau on education; a matter I wish the editors had examined in more detail), to learn language without a teacher, and to find a place in a world where it is the only one of its kind and afflicted with the two unforgivable deformities of ugliness and poverty. When it tells its story, in one of the narrative Russian dolls of the novel, it has already killed Victor's younger brother, but Shelley makes the two years that lead up to this violence lead to it almost inevitably.The novel is about the danger of science pursued without a moral foundation ("for its own sake"). The issue is not so much that Victor shouldn't have created "life," but that creating a living thing places on us responsibilities we cannot avoid. It is Victor (as he histrionically insists) who is responsible for the Creature's crimes. The Creature is "born" as a tabla rasa, with no language, no history, no biography, no morality, and no guidance, no parental foundation. Shelley makes it clear that Victor failed, as God or mother, by refusing to accept responsibility for his "monster" once it came to life. (Yes, I realize that Young Frankenstein manages to make delicious fun of even this aspect of the story.) The editorial notes elaborate on the biographical facts of Mary Shelley's life that point to this interpretation.Frankenstein has its flaws as a novel. It is difficult, sometimes, to tell whether Victor and Walton are speaking for the author or being satirized. Victor tells the story, as his "journal" is recorded by Walton, who admires him (more technically, in a move worthy of Conrad, Walton tells the story, since he "owns" the narrative). Within it, Victor lets the Creature tell HIS story, and it's pretty clear that Shelley is not worrying too much about the POV problems this triple mirror creates. We only see the Creature once without the mediating voice of Victor, and that for less than a minute, through the highly prejudiced eyes of Walton.The great failure of the novel is the failure of so many first-person narratives: over the generations, readers have been seduced by the narrative voice. Just as we forget Marlow is not Conrad, James is not the Governess, Shakespeare is not Hamlet, and Mary Shelley is not Victor Frankenstein. But the reader quickly falls into the fallacy. When Victor calls the Creature evil, we nod and read on. The Creature becomes evil, by any human standard. But no one judges Victor. Except Mary Shelley, and we can thank the editors for letting us see the woman behind the mask. She knew the locus of evil, if she did not fully grasp the power of owning the narrative.

This book is fantastic. It's obvious that this was well researched. It is packed with in-depth notes and a lot of illustrations. The book has a thorough introduction and a timeline in the back. Frankenstein is one of my favorite books, and I will enjoy reading this version which I'm sure will provide new insight and thought to one of the greatest books ever written. This book must have been a labor of love, but one that will be treasured.

So glad I purchased this book. It has been a tremendous asset while developing essays and themes for my course work.

From the stunning dust jacket to the beautifully presented text, footnotes and period art, this Annotated really delivers. I wish the "Dracula" was this good.

Excellent detail - I've heard but not verified there may be some factual errors - that's why I'm not giving it a 5 star rating - see other reviews here for more on that. The quality of the book, binding, paper and illustrations is top-notch.

Yes, I was shocked to learn that Lord Byron was only five feet tall, according to an allegedly authoritative annotation on page 110 of English professor Susan Wolfson's and associate professor of English Ronald Levao's THE ANNOTATED FRANKENSTEIN. And I never realized that amongst the trio that visit Colin Clive's Henry Frankenstein in Universal's 1931 film FRANKENSTEIN is an actor playing Henry Clerval, a character from the original novel! I also never knew that it was Lon Chaney Jr. who played the Monster in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN! Wow! It is so great when annotations enlarge one's knowledge about any given topic in a main text. That is the entire purpose of annotations - to shed Promethean, professorial light on whatever the light of further knowledge is aimed at.The trouble is, in this case the annotations need further annotations to illumine them correctly. Alas, "mad, bad, dangerous to know" Lord B. was NOT a dwarf and was actually five foot eight and a half. And John Boles was NOT playing Clerval in James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN. His character was actually named Victor Moritz. And apart from one or two stand-in scenes shot from a distance (after the actual actor playing the Monster injured his ankle on set), Lon Chaney Jr. did NOT play the Monster in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. 'Twas Glenn Strange in his third go at the Monster whilst Lon played Larry Talbot, a.k.a. the Wolfman, in that frankly fabulous and funny film.Here is the point: a Professor of English and an Associate Professor of English helmed this annotated effort which is published by the prestigious Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. Did no one, therefore, proof-read the annotations before this book was, indeed, printed and put on the market? A five foot Lord Byron is unthinkable! And it is wrong! How could two luminaries of literature NOT have checked this annotation before the ink dried? And what of the other two erroneous annotation listed above? Those are simply three I netted - how many more are there amongst all the other annotations? It is a troubling and sobering thought. Shaky scholarship is always a troubling and sobering thought.But... the thing about this edition is that there really are not all that many annotations in this edition at all. Page after page I felt like as I was Walton or Frankenstein going snow-blind with the Arctic white and waste of so much page space! Surely so much more could have been explored and expounded upon on the often vast emptiness of too many pages. Leonard Wolf, in his admirable 1977 THE ANNOTATED FRANKENSTEIN fleshed out the pages much more enthusiastically with much more information and many more illustrations. Anyway, the cover of this current book is visually arresting and Gothically gripping. The trouble is, the lightening and the castle are more out of Universal Studios than Mary Shelley's novel.

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Beatrix Potter loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. The Tale of Peter Rabbit¸ published in 1902, was her first book, expanded from an illustrated letter she had sent to a young friend. Beatrix Potter went on to publish more than 20 tales and collections of rhymes.

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Cecily Parsley lived in a pen, and brewed good ale for gentlemen; gentlemen came every day, till Cecily Parsley ran away. Goosey, goosey, gander, whither will you wander? Upstairs and downstairs, and in my lady's chamber!

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Age Range: 3 - 7 years

Series: Peter Rabbit (Book 23)

Hardcover: 34 pages

Publisher: Warne (September 16, 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0723247927

ISBN-13: 978-0723247920

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Now, don't get me wrong, I love Beatrix Potter and her stories. My mom gave them to me when I was little. So, when I had a little one of my own how could I resist? I got this book for his first birthday, but when I read it out loud I was disappointed. While the pictures turned out vibrant, it's a very cut-down story of the beloved Peter Rabbit with a chewed-up moralless rendition of the original story. C'mon guys, I totally understand you have to squeeze a story onto less pages for board books. But this was a sloppy way to go about it.

DO NOT ORDER THE PAPERBACK. I wish I had read the reviews, but I guess I was in a hurry. I thought this would be a decent rendition of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit." This is a joke. It looks like someone photo-copied it. The images aren't even centered on the page. It's only a little bigger than the size of my iPhone. So sad. So sad that amazon would even allow this to be sold.

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These books are just as I remember from my childhood. I hope my daughter gets as much enjoyment out of them as i did.Peter Rabbit is a story of a rambunctious little rabbit who does not listen to his mother. He goes on an adventure and nearly gets caught by the farmer. As he is running from the farmer he gets tangled up and loses his shoes and his jacked. He makes it back home and immediately get put to bed without supper.The illustrations are well done in this book. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it to my daughter.

A remake of the vintage Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit tales. This version of less than thirty pages does not match the original collection of Peter Rabbit tales, but it is a nice introduction to the lessons of Peter for younger children. It lacks the lyrical language and appears curt in a few sections. On the other hand, the essential story is present. Peter, unlike his siblings, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail, cannot avoid containing his curiosity and disobeying his mother. He soon finds himself being chased by Farmer McGregor facing a fate similar to his father. Peter is a clever fellow, but he has several narrow escapes. In the end, his siblings do seem to be properly rewarded, while he remains the black sheep of the family.The watercolor illustrations are not quite as muted and are more modern. They do an adequate job of portraying the action for young readers. I would recommend the book especially for preschoolers

This is the second of the same baby book that I've bought. I thought about getting a different one for my second child for interests sake but I ultimately knew I would be disappointed with anything else (and so, probably, would they). This is a GREAT baby book! My search was long and hard. There are a lot of not great ones out there, and a lot of the more interesting ones aren't sweet and baby-themed enough. This is a throw-back, with Peter Rabbit, but it is also modern enough to look back on and be reminded of the baby's first year, and what those good-ole-days were really like. NOSTALGIA! I love that it's printed in Italy, instead of China; that it's made responsibly (you can read about that); that's it's such great quality - it will NEVER fall apart; that it's not silly and is pretty standard with firsts and a family tree and places for pictures of things that matter; that it has sweet, but not distracting, pictures (you can write right on top of them if you need the space); and that it expects reasonable amounts of time and effort from you but feels full and sufficient. It has a pocket in the back too, to store some things. Mostly it just doesn't annoy the ever-loving crap out of me, like most of the other's certainly would have.

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Pramila Jayapala rejected her indigenous Indian culture when she was a young child, having been taught and raised in Western schools and ideology. For years, Jayapala held this uncomplicated opinion: "India repressed and backward, America creative and advanced." But after working a soulless job in investment banking and marketing, she finally came to realize that "there was a woman within me, waiting to emerge, a persona that included a complexity of new images of homeland, identity, life values, and work." Eventually she left Seattle, Wash., where she had worked, to embark on a two-year pilgrimage through India. Japayala takes us on the underground tour--letting us see this complex and spiritually fascinating country through Western eyes but with a native guide. She openly questions the feminine and class restraints of India, yet somehow she never becomes self-righteous or didactic. Through this brave, unflinching voice we find a mentor for self-discovery as well as a model for how to know and question our own homelands. At its core this is a global manifesto in which Jayapala recognizes that spiritual growth is the only way to bring about social and political change. But at its heart this is a dynamic spiritual memoir as Jayapala continually returns to her personal journey, including the gripping crescendo--a miraculous story of her son's premature birth in Bombay. --Gail Hudson

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Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: Seal Press (January 1, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1580050328

ISBN-13: 978-1580050326

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"It is too easy in America to forget to question what we are striving for and what we are willing to sacrifice to get it, because the dominant worldview of what our lives should look like is so overwhelming, blasted out in advertisements and billboards, glossy magazines and window displays."This book was maybe more 3.5 stars for me.Part memoir and part exploration of the spiritual and decoding one's own experiences this book is more vast than I expected.We see not only the conflicting parts of India, but Pramila Jayapal's person conflicts such as opposition to child labor when children need to work to feed their families. Her insight on feminism and how she wanted to give other women a voice was more problematic than she realized initially and how she had to deal with her own feelings as well as the reality of how many of her friends lived. This book also discusses the feeling of being an outside in a place where everyone looks like you.This is an interesting book that brings up so interesting policy thoughts as well as some personal stories.

Pilgrimage is a fair and honest assessment of some of the social issues faced by the people in India, especially women. Ms. Jayapal experience is conveyed to the reader in simple but not simplistic manner. I felt like her companion through her journey. She openly acknowledges her own strengths and weaknesses and those of Indian society. She does not judge issues as right or wrong, she knows the readers are intelligent enough to decide for themselves. The strength of a person and a society is the ability to look inward and realize that there is good and bad everywhere. Pramila Jayapal is a person of such remarkable strength. As someone who has lived half of my life in India and half abroad, I was able to identify with Pramila. Reading this book was both an emotional and a spiritual experience that I enjoyed.

Make no mistake: behind her Indian roots (name, appearance, etc.) the author is yet another Westerner, and the underlying tone is undeniably "us (Western) and them (Indian)".However, her being of Indian origin, there is little room to doubt her empathy/outrage for the grim socioeconomic inequalities that persist in modern India. Her discussions on the bureaucratic failures in implementing the state policies, such as in education, are bold, forthright, and true to a great extent.On the flip side, beware of her Indian connection. This book is NOT an "insider's view", but someone with mostly Western sensibilities coming to terms with what modern India has to offer - good or bad. She seeks not to "write simply about the sensational and the negative" (p73) about India, but has often done precisely that, albeit in a *sympathetic* tone. She stays in several states, yet surprisingly little observation of the regional heritage (handicraft, folklore, cuisine...) - deriving out of the amazing cultural diversity of the local populace - is made.Yet, from child-labour to ojhas (shamans), it's backwardness aplenty; replete with graphic details of gutter-pigs (p64), down to listing the varieties of Lucknow's beggars (p66) and Varanasi-bathers' undergarments (p162), to some of the "64 ways for ghosts and pisachas (goblins) to be created" (p156)!!Note for the serious reader: her takes on spirituality are amateurish, although honest, where Adi Sankaracharya is reduced to a mere "saint", Kabir to just a "poet", and Santana Dharma to "right living". Her few-day digs at Vipassana or Ramana-ashramam is more tourism than spirituality.Also, her homework on Indian (Sanskrit) terms is sometimes lacking; guru-shishya (disciple) is not "guru-shiksha" (learning), sangam (confluence) is not "sangham" (association), Keshab Sen (famous Brahmo) is not "Reshab Sen", and calling Vidysagar as "Iswar Chandra" is like calling Gandhi as "Mohan Das"!Seemingly, she lacks credibility on several of her accounts. She claims (p155) to have been told by "many" that incidents, such as where a Varanasi pundit would ask the devotees to *offer* their daughter to him and can buy her back later with several thousand rupees, "do still happen". If that's not enough, sample her take (p49) on Indian education: in "elite colleges" in India, "men can score 60 percent on an entrance examination and be eligible for admission, while women must score 80 percent". Rubbish!The diligence with which she pursues the cause for women touches the reader's heart, despite her occasional over-enthusiasm (while on a trip from Bombay (p120) she manages to observe that the men in her bus were "clapping, singing" in "obvious enjoyment" upon watching a rape-scene in the movie on her bus-video!!).The author is at her best while writing on Kerala, Swadhyaya, and her own premature delivery in Bombay. Particularly in the latter case, she is strikingly natural as she narrates from a genuinely personal point of view, without being judgmental or didactic, the way she finds the (Indian) world, as it is, around herself. I wish I could say that about the other chapters.I recommend the following titles: "India Unbound" (socioeconomic history), "Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India" (Indian women), "Travelers' Tales India", "Culture Shock! India" (for tourists), "The Wishing Tree" (Indic tradition), "Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion" (spirituality-tourist).

Pramila Jayapal vividly presents all the beauty and splendor of India, contrasting with the poverty, sexism, corruption, and classism that is also India. This book especially touched my heart for two reasons: (1) my son was born prematurely, too, at only 24 weeks, and when I read the chapter about Pramila's son's birth I had tears rolling down my cheeks, and (2) I have a special fondness for India, because my husband and I became engaged while we were traveling there. This was one of the best travel memoirs of India I have read.

It was a life changing book for me! It encompassed four corners of India in those few pages. Its not a book for people who only want accolades and praises for India and want to hear all good things about India. Its a book which tells the story behind the scene, it tells the tale of those faceless people who are struggling , suffering , either optimistically or with complains. Being born and brought up in India myself, I could never see that India had so many faces, so many angels , so many dimesnions .And I have realized that India is not just a land where saints ,spiritualy ,buddhism and Gods , Computers, IT , Sofware developers, engineers prosper, its a land where slums ,child-labor, anger, frustration and pains prosper too.But I very gald to read that Pramila Jayapal didnot show India in hue of just Black and White, Right and Wrong and with the rigid ideas and preconceived notions that people carry with themseleves along with their luggage when they first land to this place.She reveals her struggle to understand if what is Right in the books ,is really right in real life.Its a beautiful book which balance Right and Wrong, balance Morals with self-conscious.

One of the few books that capture the complexity and beauty of India in these changing times. Pramila Jayapal describes today's India honestly and objectively but with an understanding heart. A thought provoking book and a great read.

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"Brightly colored, cartoon-style artwork, done in mixed media, spreads across wide pages, capturing the exuberant antics of the mischievous critters. A nice bit of fun." School Library Journal

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Eileen Christelow has created numerous fun and funny picture books, including the Five Little Monkeys series, Author, and most recently, Letters from a Desperate Dog. She and her husband, Ahren, live in Vermont. For more information visit www.christelow.com.

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Grade Level: Preschool and up

Lexile Measure: 440L (What's this?)

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Series: A Five Little Monkeys Story

Board book: 28 pages

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (December 18, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0544083539

ISBN-13: 978-0544083530

Product Dimensions:

7.5 x 0.7 x 6.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.3 out of 5 stars

113 customer reviews

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We received this book as part of a monthly Kid's book box subscription. While often the books included are a bit off beat, this one was just a retelling of the 5 monkeys in the tree rhyme. But somehow, the artwork, and the frame story that was placed onto the rhyme made this not fun to read. Often the kid (12 months at the time of receipt) just closed the book while I was reading it to him, and then wandered away. We took this copy to the local "little free library" in our neighborhood, hoping another child may enjoy it.

Mediocre baby book. The story is fine, illustrations are vibrant, but the text is too repetitive. And it's unclear how the monkeys always seem to escape the crocodile.

This is a fun companion to my son’s favorite song, “No More Monkey’s Jumping On The Bed.” It actually reads in a way that is appropriate for bedtime.

We purchased this book because of the similarity between this and the little song our son sings at daycare. He'll often yell "SNAP" loudly and anticipates the page with the alligator on it! Very entertaining book for little ones!

This one's cute. Used to have a book of the monkeys on the bed with a button you'd push and it would play the song... I think this reminds my son of that. I like to read this with and old eyeglass case in hand so when the alligator snaps I can kind of bring it to life.

My two year old had inherited this book from his older brothers so it was a little beat up. He loves the crocodile and says snap with the book. I ordered this one for Christmas. I was pleasantly surprised that it was a larger than the typical board book. I am thrilled with the size at the price!

My grandson loves getting his box every 3 months. I wanted to expose him early to reading

my daughter (who is 6 years old ) loves these books bought the whole series. We read each one every night

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