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A review by dragonbitebooks
Grumpy Monkey Party Time! by Suzanne Lang
3.0
Review originally published on my blog, Nine Pages.
Jim Panzee is back in the classic story of a character who says that he doesn’t or can’t dance being taught by his friends how to do and realizing that he has to find his own beat—only Jim’s beat, is no beat. Jim learns how to dance from his friends, and his friends are all impressed and want to dance with Jim at Porcupine’s party. But after so long dancing, Jim can’t take it anymore. He decides to leave the party rather than dance anymore. And that’s when he discovers that there is party food—lots of delicious party food that Porcupine needs help eating. So Jim and the other animals that he emboldens to admit their dislike of dancing stay at the party, and they eat, and they even play a few games, but they don’t dance. As another individual who has found that dancing is not one of my favorite activities, I always appreciate parties that make plain that not dancing is socially acceptable. For that alone, I can enjoy this book. I wonder if its message gets to its targets audience as much as it does to the fed-up adult readers who have been conditioned to think that events like weddings or even proms require dancing. More parties with board games is what I’m advocating. I still like the inclusion of some lesser-known creatures though I find it odd that only Norman the gorilla from next-door and Jim Panzee have names separate from their species.
Jim Panzee is back in the classic story of a character who says that he doesn’t or can’t dance being taught by his friends how to do and realizing that he has to find his own beat—only Jim’s beat, is no beat. Jim learns how to dance from his friends, and his friends are all impressed and want to dance with Jim at Porcupine’s party. But after so long dancing, Jim can’t take it anymore. He decides to leave the party rather than dance anymore. And that’s when he discovers that there is party food—lots of delicious party food that Porcupine needs help eating. So Jim and the other animals that he emboldens to admit their dislike of dancing stay at the party, and they eat, and they even play a few games, but they don’t dance. As another individual who has found that dancing is not one of my favorite activities, I always appreciate parties that make plain that not dancing is socially acceptable. For that alone, I can enjoy this book. I wonder if its message gets to its targets audience as much as it does to the fed-up adult readers who have been conditioned to think that events like weddings or even proms require dancing. More parties with board games is what I’m advocating. I still like the inclusion of some lesser-known creatures though I find it odd that only Norman the gorilla from next-door and Jim Panzee have names separate from their species.