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　　Eileen Christelow has created numerous fun and funny picturebooks, including the Five Little Monkeys series, Author, and mostrecently, Letters from a Desperate Dog. She and her husband, Ahren,live in Vermont. For more information visitwww.christelow.com.

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　　The five little monkeys and Mama are eager to get a new car.The five little monkeys clean and paint their old car until itsparkles like new. But who will buy it? Perhaps those clevermonkeys can convince their cranky crocodile neighbors that whatthey really need is . . . yes, a car Children will love predictinghow the five little monkeys will deal with each new challenge,making this a perfect story for interactive reading. Lively verseand Eileen Christelow's inimitably comic illustrations put the fivelittle monkeys in the driver's seat in more ways than one.

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　　The five little monkeys and their mama have had it with their"rickety, rattletrap wreck of a car." It's time to sell this oldheap. Mama makes a "For Sale" sign and goes inside. But herever-helpful children worry that the car is too icky, sticky, andslimy, and take matters into their own industrious hands. "I know!"says one little monkey. And next thing they know, they're washingand scrubbing the filthy jalopy. Now it's clean, but still rustyand stinky. The monkeys ponder. "I know!" says one little monkey.Soon the car is painted and perfumed within an inch of its life.Unfortunately, it's not visible to potential buyers. "I know!" saysone little monkey. With all these collective brainstorms, it's notlong before the sparkly clean, psychedelically colorful car haslanded in the swamp, with the five chagrined little monkeys inside,and a gaggle of crocodiles lurking nearby, licking their chops. Howwill they ever get themselves out of this mess, and sell the car,to boot? "I know!" says one little monkey...