Eileen Christelow - Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Books

Pros: Cute repetitive story
Cons: Nothing really learned except the concept that jumping-on-the-bed is fun even if you do bump-your-head.

It seems that my wife and I have always been singing the little rhyme about monkeys jumping on the bed to young ones. I suppose it automatically came out of our mouths every time one of our children and now grand children stood up in our bed. This was ...

Pros: Nice and to the point, perfect bedtime story.
Cons: Might be boring/repetitive for older children. Perfect for under age 5 , I would say.

Having five plus one children, age range from 14 years to 3 years, means LOTS of bedtime stories have been read and are still to be read. My older children mostly got Eric Carle and Dr. Seuss. With as cute as some of those books ...

Pros: Cute monkeys are very engaging for little ones
Cons: Jaws might lock at the repetition

At first glance, Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed doesn't appear to be much of a book. After all, why buy a book with sentences that repeat over and over?

If you're not familiar with the rhyme, let me help you achieve that...

Pros: Based on popular children's rhyme, lovable main characters
Cons: Can get a bit boring for adults to read again and again

“Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” by Eileen Christelow is a fun book for the toddler to preschool crowd. The book is based on the popular children’s finger rhyme. The soft cover version is 32 pages long with short simple text. The Story: ...

Pros: A Fun Book at Bedtime
Cons: None

After days, weeks, and months of Barney, Sesame Street, Arthur, and Sandra Boynton books at bedtime, we were looking for something different. We found it with, "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed."

This book for toddlers to five...

Pros: Promotes a love of reading
Cons: None

Five Little Monkeys Jumping On the Bed, written and illustrated by Eileen Christelow, is a book that young children will love to hear. Pre-schoolers, kids in kinder, kids in first--virtually all beginning readers delight in the predictable text and...

Pros: Interesting action and finger play.
Cons: Not in song and not a relaxing rhyme for toning down.

This is an action rhyme. A caregiver can teach useful verbs like jumping, called and bumped through actions. This makes the rhyme very interesting. Even a six months old infant will laugh at the sight of her mother or caregiver jumping up and down and...