[.ca] Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car (ISBN 0395925665)

From Amazon.com:
The five little monkeys and their mama have had it with their "rickety, rattletrap wreck of a car." It's time to sell this old heap. Mama makes a "For Sale" sign and goes inside. But her ever-helpful children worry that the car is too icky, sticky, and slimy, and take matters into their own industrious hands. "I know!" says one little monkey. And next thing they know, they're washing and scrubbing the filthy jalopy. Now it's clean, but still rusty and stinky. The monkeys ponder. "I know!" says one little monkey. Soon the car is painted and perfumed within an inch of its life. Unfortunately, it's not visible to potential buyers. "I know!" says one little monkey. With all these collective brainstorms, it's not long before the sparkly clean, psychedelically colorful car has landed in the swamp, with the five chagrined little monkeys inside, and a gaggle of crocodiles lurking nearby, licking their chops. How will they ever get themselves out of this mess, and sell the car, to boot? "I know!" says one little monkey... These five are no strangers to silly predicaments and clever solutions, as evidenced in Eileen Christelow's four other entertaining picture books about the quintet, including Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

Similar to taking my kids to Bubble's Car Wash in Houston:
Absolutely Fabulous book on car washing and great rhymes and story line. If you have ever been with the kids to a car wash and watch the crazy stuff they do at car washes, like the one we went to after reading this book in Houston, you will appreciate the book even more.

Monkeys are Funny so the Book is Too:
I thought that this was a funny book that would be great for young children. It is a fun and easy book to read, with great pictures. The pictures do a wonderful job of showing what is happening in the story, making it easier for young kids to follow along. The monkeys are a good choice of character for the story, because every little kid loves monkeys. I recommend this book for any young kid who wants to read and laugh at the same time.

Monkeys are Funny so the Book is Too:
I thought that this was a funny book that would be great for young children. It is a fun and easy book to read, with great pictures. The pictures do a wonderful job of showing what is happening in the story, making it easier for young kids to follow along. The monkeys are a good choice of character for the story, because every little kid loves monkeys. I recommend this book for any young kid who wants to read and laugh at the same time.

Funnest Five Little Monkey Book:
This book is the most fun of the Five Little Monkeys books we've read so far. The story rhymes, which my daughter enjoys, and is a lot of fun to read out loud, with different voices for the monkeys and the crocodiles.

Extremely popular at bedtime!:
I find the meter seems "off" in some of the stanzas in this particular monkey episode, and the illustrations of the monkey books are not particularly appealing to me, but who cares? My daughter (almost three) loves this one and asks for it almost every nap and bedtime. She enjoys the rhymes, likes how the monkeys make faces (at how yucky the car is), mimics the crocodiles, etc. It's a hit! Not too bad to read aloud a thousand million times, either. I found it kind of odd that another reviewer feels this is a good book about car washing. Only one page actually features the monkeys washing the car (the rest of the time they're painting it, de-stinking it, moving it, etc.). When they do, it's with a hose and sponges, not through a car-wash. If you're really looking for books about car washes, you might want to keep looking! This is a silly, fun book about monkeys, crocodiles, old rickety cars, and not much more.