Tweak Tweak Review

Tweak Tweak by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier

Little Elephant has a lot of questions for his mother about what little elephants can do.

Little Elephant goes on a walk with his mother and is told to tweak her tail twice every time he has a question.  As they go along Little Elephant sees other animals doing all sorts of things like jumping, swimming and flying and Little Elephant wants to know if he can do those things too.  Mama Elephant answers all his questions and makes sure that when she tells him there is something he can't do she tells him something just as good that he can do.  It's a good story about people being different and having different skills, and being happy about the things you can do instead of upset about the things you can't.  (I have to admit that the toes on Little Elephant creep me out a little.  I don't know why.  They just don't look right.)  It's a sweet story about growing and learning and a mother encouraging her son.  But in true Monkey fashion we turned it into something else entirely.  Of course the elephant pictures were a hit but everyone's favorite page was the frog giving Little Elephant the finger.  He's like 'get out of here Little Elephant, jumping is our thing.'  Which is completely rude and so something a Shipping Monkey would say.

F*** off, Little Elephant