Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed

 Written by Eileen Christelow

This is part of a series about the 5 little monkeys that is obviously inspired by the "jumping on the bed" rhyme.  (There is a book in the series based on the rhyme, too, though I haven't read it.)

I got this one out in desperation because my son hated every book in the house save one Sandra Boynton book that we were all tired of.

 He really didn't like this book, either, but didn't mind flipping through it on a car trip.

It's not written particularly well; you have to bend the sentences a bit to make them match up rhythmically.  The story is okay.  The monkeys make so much noise reading books in bed that Mom takes the books away, and then gets caught reading them herself.  My daughter thought it was funny.

I kind of really like that it's a single mom with five kids.  And, like, quintuplets or something.  That's brutal.

There are lots of books in this series.  Pretty much any kid who has heard the original rhyme would go crazy for any of these books, like my daughter did.  We ended up buying the one where they make the birthday cake, and I don't mind having it around the house, even though I have the same complaints about it.