![]() ![]() We are sad for the farmer, whose momento has been mangled, but now equally sad for the irrepressible monkey, who becomes buried in an overnight snowstorm. And now the mood, and the viewer's loyalties, shift. The farmer, horrified, banishes the little monkey outside for the night. When the farmer notices the monkey, and invites it in, the vivacious creature tears around the farmhouse, carelessly crushing the treasured hat. It watches as the farmer sits slumped across from a chair empty but for the clown's pointed red hat. The monkey stays out of sight, peeking around corners and peering through the farmer's window. ![]() ![]() 11/14 winner of the 2015 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Picture Book) begins where the first book left off, with a circus monkey sneaking home behind the farmer, who is despondent that his little clown friend has just left. The sequel to Frazee's The Farmer and the Clown (rev. ![]()
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