He studied fine art at Camberwell College of Art and has been writing and illustrating children's books since 1999. Packed with humour, colour and exuberance, this is a brilliant observation of toddler behaviour.Ībout the Author: Ed Vere is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer and illustrator of picture books, including How To Be a Lion - winner of Oscar's Book Prize - and Max the Brave which was named one of The Sunday Times's '100 Modern Children's Classics'. Follow one little monkey's journey through many emotions as he tries every trick in the book to get hold of his friend's banana, until he finally hits on the magic word - please! Using only two words, this is a fantastic introduction to the value of manners and compromise for young children. Getting what you want can be tricky, especially if you don't ask in quite the right way.

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I think this book would be too young for toddlers to get in a storytime setting.

Then again, the Finn book worked all right. But I'm not sure how comfortable I am with facially acting out a tantrum-especially with an age that is subject to them. I think this would be a fun read-aloud, because it would be enjoyable to say banana all those ways. A lot conveyed in the illustrations-and so many ways to say 'banana.' It makes me think of all the ways one can say Wall-E or Eve (or Ev-a!).

Banana by ed vere