Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Maniac Muffins
Follow crowd-favorite Chico Bon Bon as he goes on silly adventures and uses his extensive tool collection to fix any problem he finds.
Clark's baking project is not going as planned. Now gigantic maniac muffins are on the loose! To stop them, Chico Bon Bon needs a plan and his tool belt, of course. With the right tools and some quick thinking, this crumbly disaster might just have a tasty solution!
Creators
Chris Monroe is an award-winning author, illustrator and cartoonist. Her picture books include the Monkey with a Tool Belt series, which inspired the Netflix series Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt. She lives in Duluth, MN
Reviews
Monroe’s impish illustrations are busy with delightful touches—Chico’s kitchen-specific tool belt, complete with “thermometer with bling” and “butter splapper” is particularly terrific—and her deadpan humor should please adults as well as kids. The silliness still feels fresh, even in Chico’s fourth outing.
Kirkus Reviews
Chico Bon Bon’s fourth picture book might be his funniest yet, as the very handy monkey tries to keep up with the disastrous culinary efforts of his elephant friend, Clark. As the book opens, the kitchen table has been leveled by one of Clark’s giant pancakes (‘They’re very dense,’ Clark explains, undeterred), and the blueberry muffins the elephant whips up blow the door off the oven before going on a rampage through town (‘They were so bouncy!!!! They were so heavy!!’). Chico Bon Bon’s quick thinking saves the day—leftovers have seldom come in so handy—and Monroe’s manic cartooning will have kids laughing from start to finish.
starred, Publishers Weekly
