While Julia Donaldson is best known for The Gruffalo, she has written many other children’s books that are worth sharing with children, says Penny Tassoni

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While Julia Donaldson is best known for The Gruffalo, she has written many other children’s books that are worth sharing with children.

monkey-puzzleIn this book, a baby monkey is looking for his mother. A friendly butterfly takes charge and tries to solve the puzzle of where she might be.

Unfortunately, the baby monkey doesn’t give a full description of his mother and so butterfly takes the baby monkey to the wrong animal over and over again. When the baby monkey finally explains that he looks like his mother, the puzzle is nearly solved.

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