NOW IN SPANISH! Follow along as baby monkey learns life in the jungle. Watch him hang from branches, swing from trees, and ride along on mom's back.

This Pre-reader uses simple vocabulary and fun pictures to capture the interest and help develop the skills of beginning readers. The crazy antics, humor, and fun information make this reading experience a treat.

National Geographic Readers have been a hit in the competitive beginning reader category, and this book follows upon that success with the same careful text and brilliant photographs. Now the series is expanding beyond elementary school levels to reach children at the very beginning of their lifelong relationship with reading. National Geographic Pre-Readers use visual representation, repetition, and recognition to teach kids the most basic building blocks of reading.

This book features in the following series: National Geographic Kids, Readers .

This book has been graded for interest at 2-5 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by National Geographic Kids .

National Geographic Kids collaborates to put forth fun and interesting non-fiction for kids. SUSAN B. NEUMAN is a professor and Chair of Teaching and Learning in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University specializing in early literacy development. Previously, she served on the faculty of the University of Michigan and before that as the U. S. Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education. In her role as Assistant Secretary, she established the Early Reading First program, developed the Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program, and was responsible for all the activities in Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Act. She has served on the IARA Board of Directors (2001-2003) and is currently the editor of Reading Research Quarterly. She has written more than 100 articles and authored and edited 11 books, including the Handbook of Early Literacy Research Volumes 1-3 with David Dickenson, Changing the Odds for Children at Risk (Teachers College Press, 2009), Educating the Other America (Brookes, 2008), Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance: Poverty, Literacy, and the Development of Information Capital (Teachers College Press, 2012), and All About Words: Improving Children's Vocabulary in the Age of Common Core Standards , preK through Grade 2.