# The Monkey Goes Bananas

**Author:** C. P. Bloom
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 5–8
**First published:** 2014
**Page count:** 38
**Genre:** Humor
**ISBN-13:** `9781419708855`
**ISBN-10:** `1419708856`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-monkey-goes-bananas
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Monkey, having spied a banana tree across the water, will stop at nothing to get a snack.

## Themes

- monkeys
- humorous stories
- determination (personality trait)
- monkeys, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2016 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2016 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2016 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2015-2016 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2015-2016 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2015-2016 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2015-2016 winner (K-3)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

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