Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.

The jungle animals try to share their excitement over Christmas with Jim Panzee, but he feels too grumpy to appreciate their efforts.

Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee," she tells us. "Its never going to be the first thing I share with someone. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you arent thinking of her as my sister. But until Ferns expulsion, Id scarcely...

"Jim Panzee is very grumpy about Valentine's Day until his buddy Norman shows him that the holiday is for everyone."--

This book traces out the life and career of Jane Goodall as a watcher of English fauna to her adult work as scholar of animal behavior in Africa.

Little monkey Arthur puts a high price on his honey bear at his yard sale, but finally sells him to his sister, despite his misgivings.

Presents facts about the physical characteristics and social behavior of the two types of chimpanzees, our closest animal relatives.

Jim Panzee begrudgingly agrees to help Tortoise enter the big race.

Bored with spring vacation, Arthur decides to go alone on an overnight field trip in the woods behind his house.