Five Little Monkeys: Trick-or-Treat by Eileen Christelow-OPTIONAL

Christelow, Eileen Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Trick or Treat. PICTURE BOOK. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. $16.99.  The Five Little Monkeys are going trick-or-treating with their favorite babysitter, Lulu.  Out the door the run and off to the first house they go.  Lulu keeps track of the monkeys by calling out their costumes: Banana, alien, ghost, goblin and princess- all here! One of the monkeys decides to play a trick on Lulu and switch costumes with a friend.  One by one the others join in the fun and switch costumes as well. Lulu thinks that she has kept track of the Five Little Monkeys all night long, until they get home and Mama doesn’t recognize even one of them!  Luckily the original Five Monkeys keep close by and return home safe and sound. This is a cute sequel to the original Five Little Monkeys story.  The illustrations are inviting, detailed and very colorful.  Pre-K.  EL (K-3).  OPTIONAL. Reviewer: SL.