Cloud Tea Monkeys Audiobook (Unabridged)

" I am reading this book to my 4th and 5th grade classes and I find it to be beautiful in both words and illustrations. For the kids, it starts slow as the story and characters are set up, but I find it riveting. I have only read half and will finish it next week and I can't wait for the fable to unfold. "

" Great story, now I want to buy, "Monkey -picked tea". I am pretty sure I can at this great shop on Manchester just up the street from me. I Love where I Live. "

" Excellent story, with very good illustrations. "

" Tashi and her mother are tea pickers in the Himalayas, but when her mother is too sick to work, Tashi can't afford a doctor and the overseer makes fun of her for thinking she can keep up with the women. Tashi's friends the monkeys come to the rescue. This is a lovely, timeless tale with an interesting historical note to share with children, about the fact that commonplace things like spices, chocolate, and tea were once precious and difficult to obtain. "

" This was a short, easy read. I expected a little more conflict but it was a beautiful story--style based on a folktale. Main character is a girl whose mother gets sick and can't pick tea and earn $ for the 2 of them, so the little girl goes to the tea plantation to try to pick tea. She's too small to pick the best tea, so she stops for a little while and tells her story to the monkeys who she shares her lunch with each day. They take her mother's tea basket away, and she thinks they've stolen it, but they haven't--they've taken it into the mountains and picked the best tea in the world--cloud tea. That same day, the royal tea taster comes to taste the tea and discovers the tea in the little girl's basket. This leads to riches, and once a year he comes back to get more cloud tea from the girl. And she and her mother never work again. A nice morality tale about kindness leading to kindness but not much more than that. And beautiful illustrations. "

" Beautifully illustrated story of Tashi and her special relationship with a band of monekys who help her help her sick mother. A new folk tale based on existing tales. "

" What a lovely book. Tashi tries to pick tea in her sick mother's stead but it too small but her previous kindness to the local monkeys who come down from the mountain has unexpected dividends. Shortlisted for the 2011 Kate Greenaway Medal. "

" My son found this story of a young girl who tries to fill in for her mother picking tea to be emotionally gripping. Good for older preschoolers and young grade school students. "

" Part social commentary, part myth, Mal Peet's Cloud Tea Monkey is a version of a legend for high quality Himalayan tea. But before the the cloud monkey's enter one gets a sense of the difficult plight of agricultural workers in the tea industry. "

" Once again the main character showed such determination and motivation. "

" I really like the story, but I think the pictures are even more amazing. "

" What a lovely book. Tashi tries to pick tea in her sick mother's stead but it too small but her previous kindness to the local monkeys who come down from the mountain has unexpected dividends. Shortlisted for the 2011 Kate Greenaway Medal. "

" This inspiring stores correlates nicely to The Golden Rule. It sends a message children of ALL ages. The illustrations complement the narrative too. "

" I really like the story, but I think the pictures are even more amazing. "

" Quiet descriptive tale with illustrations that are finely detailed and completely absorbing. "