小猴子住在森林裡很開心,但是她有一個煩惱,那就是⋯⋯她太小了!她想吃水果,卻因為個子不夠高而構不到,她想看熱鬧,卻老是被大猴子擋住。當小猴子想參與其他大猴子的活動,卻總是遭到拒絕,因為這些對小猴子來說太危險、太困難了。小猴子再也受不了,她決定進行一項非常有勇氣的挑戰,她要證明她一點也不小,她要爬到這座森林最高的樹上!就在小猴子一點一點往上爬時,卻有對兇猛的眼睛正盯著她看,小猴子要如何化險為夷,證明自己的勇敢?
小猴子的心情彷彿孩子的心聲,好想快快長大啊,才可以做好多大人才可以做的事情。從孩子的視角出發,這個幽默可愛的故事,不只令人會心一笑,更鼓勵孩子勇敢冒險,精采成長。”The smaller you are, the bigger your adventures can be. “ 廣大的世界正等待孩子來探索,而孩子的身後,總有父母的溫暖懷抱和守護。
It's hard being a little monkey in a big troop, in an even bigger jungle – and this little monkey has had enough of always missing out! She's off to climb to the top of the tallest tree in the jungle and she's going to do it all on her own.
Except that there's someone following close behind. Someone with claws and stripes and rather sharp teeth . . .
Little Monkey is a beautiful, funny and empowering picture book from bestselling author-illustrator, two times CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal nominee and BookTrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altés, which shows us that the world is a big, wild and wonderful place where anything is possible.