Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-Monkey twins Chimp and Zee celebrate their birthday with great glee. A mailbag full of special-delivery birthday cards and two scooters with tooters from Papakey start their day off in high gear. But, best of all, their friends surprise them with an elegant birthday tea in a huge striped tent in Jungletown. A glitch en route sends the monkeys on a detour through the slimy swamp, where they meet an alligator and get lost, but all ends well after a few scary moments. The bright cartoon illustrations capture the story's energy and humor. Preschoolers will delight in celebrating the twins' birthday and will especially love the large foldout that shows all of the party details.-Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Simian twins Chimp and Zee return, bounding out of bed and into a birthday mini-adventure. Clad in jammies and closely attended by "Mumkey" and "Papakey," the two zoom on new scooters through bright, leafy landscapes on their way into Jungletown for "the most enormous, stripiest Birthday Surprise of all"--a double gatefold tent with a party set up inside. It's the wildest birthday celebration since John Archambault's Boom Chicka Rock, illustrated by Suzanne Tanner Chitwood (2004), and though Chimp and Zee are temporarily led astray by a "shortcut" into Slimy Swamp, young monkeys of the human sort will happily "go bananas" along with them. (Picture book. 4-6) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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