The Monkey with a Bright Blue Bottom

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I have also done a certain amount of licensed work, illustrating characters such as Postman Pat, Bill and Ben and Sesame Street. They were even more amazed when I showed them pictures on line of mandrils which this is about and that they are actually real. It also could raise some issues about creation and the age of the earth and animals, and though I don't think that's the point, and I know it's just a fun little story, I also worry about reactions to that. In this rhyming book the answers to the colors of the some of the animals we are all familiar with is explained with some wonderful illustrations.

The challenge for conservation now in Congo is to intervene before losses become definitive," say John and Terese Hart, who led the investigation team, in tinned quotes. Extremely complete boffinry detail on the lesula - including highly detailed but perhaps rather off-putting pics of the possibly record-breaking azure buttock area, which as a mainstream publication we have chosen not to republish - can be seen here for free courtesy of online scientific journal PLoS ONE. The animals get their own back when they wake up and he ends up with a red white and blue face and a bright blue bottom which the kids found hilarious naturally! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

I've been writing children's books for about 6 years and have already had several picture books published with more in development. I can guarantee that they will giggle whenever they hear the word “bum” or see the monkey’s bright blue bottom. This was a totally unexpected find, and we knew we had something unusual and possibly unknown when we first saw the animal.

Read by Justin Fletcher (CBeebies Mr Tumble) and actress Sophie Thompson, this funny story is sure to delight toddlers everywhere. The animals come up with their own playful scheme which leaves the monkey with his own bright colors. When the mischievous monkey discovers a paintbox, he has a brilliant idea, but things don't go quite as Monkey has planned . The lesula's blue buttocks, then, are not merely bigger than those of any other monkey in its family: they are such as to rival the enormous and glaring posterior of the Mandrill, the largest monkey in the world. Monkey gets bored with all of the animals being such boring colours, especially as he admires the parrots with their vibrant plumage.This is an engagingly cheeky picture book, which will make young children laugh out loud, as soon as they spot the cover. All specimens were collected after death, either at the hands of local hunters or, in one case, by crowned eagles.

Major discoveries like this are still possible, mainly thanks to dedicated field biologists like the Harts,” says Eric Sargis, professor of anthropology at Yale and a co-author of the paper.Steve has been illustrating children’s books for almost 30 years and writing his own stories for slightly less. When he spots a big sleepy bear he decides to have some fun and draw some spectacles on him, but the Bear wakes with a start and soon all of the other animals are wide awake too.