By: James Kaczman Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Houghton Mifflin Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 32 Publication Date: March 21, 2008 Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Product Description: This story is about Ed and Ted, two thinking, speaking, fully clothed, house-dwelling monkeys. One day, Ed walks out of his just-the-right-size-for-a-monkey house. He is greeted by a bright, sunny day, with butterflies fluttering about and cute, friendly animals cheerfully hopping around. Meanwhile . . . Ted walks out of his just-the-right-size-for-a-monkey house and is met by a forbidding sky with dark clouds, large insects swarming about, and frightening vermin crawling around.
Awesome Book! Must read, must share with others! A great book to read as an adult and a great book to read to any child. I love this book and all of its delightful insights. We gave this book as teacher gifts at the end of the school year and will continue to give as gifts to others for years to come. James Kaczman is a brillant author and illustrator.
I loved this book! As someone who both reads, writes, and illustrates children's books, I highly recommend this book. "Lucky Monkey, Unlucky Monkey" is a witty, entertaining look at the nature of luck. In facing page illustrations, it contrasts and compares a very good day and a very bad day in the lives of two well-dressed monkeys. Things go from good to better and bad to worse in an absurd, funny plot in which the two storylines briefly intersect in a clever visual gag.
By using two very similar characters doing very similar things and getting two very different results, the story amusingly explores the random, often unfair nature of luck. If there is any lesson to the story, it is that much of what happens during a day is a matter of chance... everybody has some good luck and some bad luck, and sometimes you have to persevere through the bad luck to get to the good luck. Younger children will enjoy the funny, entertaining adventure, while older children will also appreciate more of the references, humor and irony.
Both children and adults will giggle while searching for the subtle and silly details that enrich each page of this book.
This is a beautifully designed book with refreshing, clever illustrations. With a nod to traditional realism but enlivened with a modernist twist, the acrylic paintings have alternately brightly colored hues and muted tones. The book has also been crafted with unusual attention to detail, such as an elegantly designed silver foil hardcover beneath the dustjacket. With hilarious and ironic illustrated footnotes that children absolutely love, funny little diagrams, elegant typography, an exquisitely rendered printer's mark, and various symbols of good luck and bad luck, this book is a visual and literary keeper.
"Lucky Monkey, Unlucky Monkey" is a very funny book, beautifully illustrated and designed, that both children and adults will simply love to read together.
Courtesy of Kids @ Teens Read Too In this charming story, we witness the side-by-side day of two monkeys, Ed and Ted. Ed's day starts out rather splendid, while Ted's day, on the other hand, is not so splendid, indeed.
What follows is the day's adventures with Ed and Ted, with the nice and not so nice characters they meet, and the fun and not so fun predicaments they get themselves into.
My children enjoyed LUCKY MONKEY, UNLUCKY MONKEY, especially the humorous sidebars filled with such illuminating information as "it's difficult for monkeys to make everything they say rhyme all the time," and "it is an extremely bad idea to play with a strange dog that is growling and snarling so that its large, sharp white teeth show."
This is a fun book for kids of all ages, especially those who may feel that a bad day will never end. Trust Ed and Ted -- for every bad day, there's a good one. And sometimes, even good days end on a decidedly bad note!
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