Monkey With a Tool Belt and the Seaside Shenanigans
Chico the clever monkey helps his friend Clark the elephant solve a problem at a seaside resort.
2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
Chico the clever monkey helps his friend Clark the elephant solve a problem at a seaside resort.
When Chico Bon Bon the monkey wakes up to a loud clatter, he puts on his tool belt and searches his tree house to find what is making the noise, only to discover Clark the elephant stuck in the laundry chute.
Clever monkey Chico Bon Bon builds lots of things with his many tools, and when he is captured by an organ grinder, he uses them to help him escape and get back home.
A Tanzanian boy saves his coins to buy a bicycle so that he can help his parents carry goods to market, but then he discovers that in spite of all he has saved, he still does not have enough money.
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.
In five brief episodes two hippopotamuses reinforce their friendship.
Five brief episodes about two friends, George and Martha, who happen to be hippopotamuses.
Five new episodes in the friendship of the two hippopotamuses.
Five brief episodes reveal the ups and downs of a great friendship.