I chose to include this book solely because my children enjoyed it so much. We read it over and over.

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It is written in verse, though it is aims more at teaching phonics to early readers than at being poetic. Somehow this story about a criminal ape who escapes from prison and makes a run for freedom captured the imagination of my sons. On his run home he gets into various disasters and at the end he gets recaptured by the prison guards.

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This is a light-hearted fun book. Children seem to love it, and I find nothing harmful in it.