In keeping with the Curious George spirit created decades ago, this mischievous and curious monkey entertains us and also helps us to learn a bit about the voting process through his experience at an elementary school which happens to be voting on their favorite mascot. As expected, this monkey wishes to “write in” his choice for mascot to be a monkey instead of the “owl” or “tiger” being offered on the ballot. His hijinks throughout the school, includes “stuffing the ballot box” with his many of his votes over and over again. After finding the humor in his antics, the teacher allows the students to write in their favorite choice–which of course, is a monkey!

This may be an effective book for preschool and primary grades to explore the basic rules surrounding the voting process. A nice read and discussion platform for a school which is voting on a mascot. Classic pictures and lovable, innocent, choices made by our favorite monkey, make this Margret & H.A. Rey’s book, another nice addition to a classroom or home library series.