Eric discovers upon arriving at school that he has lost his monkey, whom he'd intended to display at Show-and-Tell. His teacher and classmates each have their own idea about where a monkey would go, but in the end it is Mr. Pete the bus driver who restores the missing creature to Eric.

Although not really to my taste aesthetically - Ed Heck's artwork here is colorful, but I found it somewhat flat and unappealing - I did appreciate the ending of Monkey Lost, which undercuts the reader's expectations, revealing that the monkey is in fact stuffed, rather than alive. Leaving that aside, I also appreciated the many imaginative guesses Eric's classmates make, in trying to figure out where the monkey has gone. Recommended to anyone looking for children's stories about guessing and/or the nature of expectations. ( )

Eric gets to school and realizes that he lost monkey. The entire class starts brainstorming where monkey could be, driving a taxi, getting food, playing on the monkey bars. Finally a police officer shows up and asks if some lost a monkey. The teacher is relieved to find out it is just a stuffed monkey. But not to Eric. ( )

The boy have a monkey, he values his monkey. On one day, he lost a monkey, but he didn't know where it is. He and his classmate tried to figure out where the monkey could be, finally the found the monkey on the bus.
Age group2-3
Perce country library