Maybe” is a fun story, but also a teaching story about what happens when trying to stretch the rules. This five-star book will be enjoyed by children aged three to seven. Little ones will love trying to warn the monkeys while stating what the monkeys should have done.

From Chris Haughton comes a funny, suspenseful and keenly observed cautionary tale about pushing boundaries and indulging your more mischievous, cheeky side (when nobody is looking). This book gives the parent a good opportunity to ask their child if the monkeys should have listened to their mother, and if the monkeys learned anything. You can also ask your child what they would do, and why there are rules.The story, set in a jungle and introduced with an Aristotelian epigraph about learning by doing, features three small monkeys and a larger one readers will assume is a parent or caregiver. As the large monkey leaves, the young ones are told to stay on the branch on which they sit: There are tigers down by the mango trees. But these mischief-makers break the rules anyway and eventually find themselves on the ground, enjoying the fruit. Four nail-biting spreads (“RUN!!!”) are devoted to their scramble to escape the tigers, one requiring a 90-degree turn as they race up a tree. The book’s suspense is built with careful pacing and the repetition of particular words (“down, down, down, / to the trees below”) and phrases:“Any tigers here? No! / Any tigers there? No! / No tigers anywhere!” The illustrations, rendered in Haughton’s signature vividly saturated palette, feature monkeys with huge eyes, dark purple fur, blue ears, and lime green noses as well as tigers who are animated with angular lines and massive teeth. Though the ever curious monkeys are frightened by the tigers, they are tempted in the end (“maybe…”) by the mention of bananas down below. The monkeys are anthropomorphized in that readers have access to their first-person inner thoughts. Human characteristics are otherwise not attributed to them, though readers wanting to move past monkey protagonists in their picture books may take a pass.

Three little monkeys are warned by their grown-up not to go down to the mango tree because there are tigers down there. The monkeys, thinking they know better, disobey and visit the mango tree anyway. Descargo de responsabilidad: Recibí una copia de este libro del editor a cambio de una reseña honesta y gratuita. Todas las opiniones expresadas aquí son mis propios pensamientos verdaderos y no están influenciados por nadie. Maybe we could just look,” is the question/suggestion posed by one of the three young Monkeys warned to stay well above the mango tree because there are tigers down there. And well, what’s a monkey to do when they know delicious mangoes are just hanging there. A look would be okay, wouldn’t it? And down they go! Haughton’s picture book about naughty and curious monkeys is a great read aloud. The text is made up solely of the monkeys’ dialogue with one another, so make sure you have at least four monkey voices at hand! With simple text, Haughton creates a book full of building tension that also offers a wild chase scene that will have readers merrily gasping along with the monkeys, before a final twist. Three little monkeys, and their big monkey, are sat high up on their branch in the forest canopy. “Ok, monkeys! I’m off,” says the big monkey. “Now remember. Whatever you do, do NOT go down to the mango tree. There are tigers down there.” Mmm… mangos! think the little monkeys. They LOVE mangos. Hmm… maybe… maybe they could just look at the mangos? That’d be ok, right?The brilliance of childlike thinking and reasoning is what makes this book a winner in my opinion. Chris Haughton absolutely nails it.

Chris Haughton is an acclaimed Irish illustrator and author based in London. Before becoming a picture book author, Chris traveled the world and worked as a waiter in San Francisco, a handyman in London’s Paddington Station, an English teacher in Hong Kong, and an art teacher in India. On his trips to India and Nepal, he became interested in fair trade and got involved with a number of non-profit projects. In 2007, he was listed in Time magazine's "DESIGN 100"for the design work he did for People Tree. Maybe…, Chris Haughton’s new book is ELECTRIC! A smidge of simian curiosity, a pinch of peril, mangoes... And a large helping of tigers.

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Find places for your child to (safely) climb or hang upside down like a monkey – for example a playground in a park. Taste a mango After the little monkey’s mother warned them to stay away from the mangoes because of tigers, she needed to leave. Will the monkeys listen to their mother? After she left, the only thing the monkeys could think of was how juicy and delicious those mangoes were. Then they start finding all kinds of uses for maybe and the rules. Me encanta que este libro les enseñe a los niños la importancia de la obediencia y la seguridad al mismo tiempo que cuenta una historia divertida! Las ilustraciones son muy lindas y me encantan los monitos adorables.

I love that this book teaches children the importance of obedience and safety while also telling a fun story! The illustrations are so cute and I love the adorable little monkeys. Maybe they could just look at the mangoes, maybe they could get one mango, and maybe there weren’t any tigers. But maybe leads the little monkeys into all kinds of trouble, and they find themselves in a terrible situation. The story is so fun and simple but is filled with some great repetition which kids will enjoy and although the story isn’t too complex it still carries and teaches an important lesson about the importance of listening to warnings and also that danger can sometimes be lurking even when you think it is safe. I like how this important message is wrapped into the story and how this can lead to some discussion with children on this topic too.In his bright and happy picturebook Maybe, Chris Haughton explores the behaviour of three little monkeys who go right ahead and do exactly what was forbidden. They escape a potentially nasty outcome by the (almost literal) skin of their teeth, but no way will readers be left in fear and trembling. Rather they will share in the monkey mischief and see how the monkeys made a silly and dangerous choice. All in all, a fun book about listening and that looking often ends into touching or just going for what may not be the best choice. Though kids here probably won’t get tigers after that, like this trio did. Act out the story with your child one of you being mummy and a tiger and the other one of the baby monkeys or alternatively you could act it out with toys as the monkeys and tigers. Be a monkey