Mommy Calls Me Monkeypants

By J.D. Lester and Hiroe Nakata

A delightful and colorful story that's perfect for all to share this Mother's Day!

This endearing book captures the sweetness and fun of mother and child interaction with a clever, funny text and illustrations that are right on the mark. J. D. Lester’ s funny nicknames come to life with Hiroe Nakata’s endearing, colorful artwork, resulting in a board book that is sweet, adorable, and fun—perfect for all new mommies and their babies to share.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Feb 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9780375986284

Reviews for Mommy Calls Me Monkeypants

[sweetiegherkin · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Mommy Calls Me Monkeypants is a short and sweet story about a variety of mother and child relationships. Its bookended by a human parent and child (who wears pajamas with monkeys on the pants, hence the book title), and is populated in between with ladybugs, peacocks, rhinoceros, and so forth. Each mother in the parent-child dyad has a special pet name for her offspring based on a telling characteristic (e.g., "Mommy calls me Peekaboo ... her bouncy baby roo," says the kangaroo joey). Throughout the book, affection is the abundantly clear theme. The book also offers children a number of rhyming types, an expanding vocabulary, and colorful illustrations.