Jean Coppendale

These charming slipcase boxes set floor puzzles contain a 16-page board book and a giant-sized jigsaw encouraging the development of colour matching and co-ordination skills. The books and puzzle are beautifully illustrated and the over-sized pieces of the jigsaw floor puzzle are easy for small children to handle. In this title,
Monkey is feeling bored and is out to cause mischief. His jokes aren't always appreciated by his animal friends, however, and they decide it's time to play a trick of their own. Meet Monkey's jungle friends, and find out what happens. The floor puzzle shows Monkey himself. -- GoodReads

Monkey Puzzle, is a book about a small monkey that has lost his mum. A friendly butterfly comes along to help the monkey find his mum, they travel through the jungle to find his mother and come across different jungle animals across the away. I enjoyed this book, as it is like a hide and seek game for children, getting them to guess what animal the butterfly thinks is the little monkey’s mother. I would recommend reading this book to children in foundation or KS1 in school. This book could be used as a topic book and read to the whole class, this book could also be used for creative lessons such as art for example children creating lost posters for the little monkey to put around the jungle to find his mother.… (meer)