Del Norte Public Library

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, habits, and behavior of the much-studied members of the Great Ape family.

"Jim Panzee is out for his usual Wednesday walk when he accidentally squishes his stress orange into orange juice. He and his friends must cross the jungle before all of the fresh oranges are gone"--

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.

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.

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...

Bobo the chimp seeks hugs among various jungle animals and their young, but he does not get what he wants until he is reunited with his own parent.

Arthur views his little sister in a different light after receiving a revealing letter from his pen pal.

Grumpy Jim Panzee decides that it is time for a new Jim, so he enlists his friends to help him get mad so he can stomp all his grumps out, and become a new Jim for the new year.

"Have you ever stayed up way past your bedtime? Jim Panzee certainly has. Jim is going to a slumber party and there's LOTS to do. Jim plans on bobbing for mangoes, going termite fishing, and of course staying UP ALL NIGHT! But Jim gets more than a little frustrated when all the things he wanted to do go awry. One by one, everyone else falls asleep, while Jim is determined to stay up. How long will he last?"--Publisher description.