Books with title Monkey Series: The Coming of Pig

Monkey Crush, the second book of the Crush Series, introduces human hunting and so allows parents to talk about the reason people hunt. Is it for food or pleasure? The scene is set in India where lions and tigers still exist together. The story brings coconuts to life and shows how an unexpected lunch can save animals from being eaten or hunted. Monkey Crush follows the theme started in the first book of the series, Frog Crush, where the animals are in a competition for food, a better place and tranquility, that parents can build upon when they read to their children and so the books allow for analogies from the real world. Many of the characteristics of the animals featured within the Crush Series are based upon watching and understanding the author's own children. One was a happy monkey, one was the crafty tiger, another the polar bear of the family and the last the bouncing kangaroo. Their interaction with each other, their quarreling, laughter and games of hide and seek were all inspirational to the characters in the books. Ian Worboys is the creator of the Crush Series world. As a father of four, whilst reading the books to his children at bedtime he would bring the animals to life through his hilarious impersonations of the animals. Sometimes he would be a funny imitator of a penguin, a frog or a kangaroo, his imagination as a writer of rhyming poetry fed the minds of his children and their friends. Silke Diehl transformed the Crush rhyming world into beautiful drawings. She met Ian in Marseille, France, by chance, and discovered they had many things in common, especially their parenting approach. She had brought her 3 children up to express their feelings and to be creative. The similarities between how the two families brought up their children in two different countries (Silke in Germany and Ian in Great Britain) is striking and has come to life in the most beautiful project.