Your Dad's a Monkey

by Judy Corbalis

When Robert's dad decides to move them out of their nice house into a tree-house in the park, Robert's not happy, and his friends don't want to know him any more.

How can he get his dad to move them back into their ordinary house and stop his friends from jeering, "Your dad's a monkey"?

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Judy Corbalis was born and grew up in New Zealand but now lives in London. A former Hawthornden Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Women Leaders at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and was the inaugural Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art where she currently holds the post of Academic Support Tutor.

She has adapted her own work for radio and has written and fronted television programmes for children. Her children's books have been published by Deutsch, Hodder and Scholastic — children love them for their humour and the fact that no character behaves as expected. Her new children's book, Get That Ball, illustrated by Korky Paul, will be published by Andersen Press in 2016. Her adult novels include Tapu, and Mortmain, shortlisted for the 2009 Encore Award.

She is married to the sculptor Phillip King, PPRA, and makes frequent visits to New Zealand.

Reviews

[emiloubooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my favourite book growing up! Such a strange yet hilarious story about a father who becomes rather bored of his normal life so decides to move his family to live up a tree!

[Val Blackburn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently found my old school books and found a book review that I wrote on this book when I was in year 6. I'd stated that it was my favourite book and enjoyed the fact that the parents acted like children in the book and that their son was the rational, reasonable one. It's a fun book that I loved reading, the illustrations were simple but captured the story, but above all, it is the most absurd storyline, about a couple leaving their home and job to move into a tree in their local park, while dragging their son along with them!

[Mayuri · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's an awesomundo book