Author: Wijngaard, Juan

Interest age: from c 4 years

Published on 3 November 2011 by Walker Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 56 pages
229 x 191 x 8 | 224g

Monkeys come to the rescue of a struggling family in this traditional tale from a Carnegie Medal winner.

Tashi lives in a tiny village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. One day her mother falls ill, and Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor. But she is too small to reach the tender shoots and the cruel Overseer sends her away empty-handed. Tashi needs a miracle. Then, on the mountains high above the plantation where only monkeys live, something extraordinary happens that will change her life for ever