Chapter 1: Obstacle Course
There once was a monkey who wanted a banana so he went on an adventure.
On his search for his banana, he discovered an obstacle course. He had to swing vine to vine to go over a pond. So he jumped on the vines until some alligators came. “If you don’t make it through this obstacle course, you’re dinner for us!”
And now the monkey was scared. So he had to go fast and he had to face his fear.
The alligators followed him so that if he fell, they could catch him in their mouths. But he got through the obstacle course so the alligators didn’t have anything to eat.
The next part of the obstacle course was pretty hard. He had to go through a maze but there were cheetahs in it! The monkey had to make sure he didn’t bump into any of them. He just had to try. So he went through the maze and then he bumped into a cheetah. He ran away, but while he was running, he found an exit. But then there was another cheetah! Both of the cheetahs bumped into each other and the monkey got out of the maze. The cheetahs were dizzy and mad that they didn’t get to eat the monkey.
Then, the monkey had to jump on some hippos without getting eaten. The monkey jumped and he jumped and he jumped until he almost got chomped. He got away with only a scratch. He finished that obstacle course. He found a banana but it wasn’t a regular banana. it was a golden banana! So he went back home and tried to eat his banana. But when he bit the gold banana, his teeth fell out. He felt sad. And he still felt hungry.
Chapter 2: A Bad Day
Monkey had a bad day to start off with. He woke up hungry because he didn’t eat anything the day before. He decided to ask for help from his friend, Pete the Parrot. Since Pete could fly, Monkey had a great idea. He’d ask Pete to fly high and search the land for bananas. Monkey started to go to Pete the Parrot’s house. On his way to Pete’s house, he met a lemur who looked sad. Monkey asked the lemur, “Why are you sad?”
Lemur said because she had no friends.
Monkey invited her to come with him to Pete the Parrot’s house. Monkey asked the lemur her name.
“My name is Leah, what’s your name?”
“My name is Miles,” said Monkey.
They continued walking to Pete’s house. When they arrived at Pete’s house, Pete was outside planting tomatoes.
Miles told him about not finding any bananas yesterday. He also told him about an obstacle course he discovered and how he was almost eaten by the alligators, cheetahs, and hippos. After surviving the other animals, he had found a golden banana. “I thought the banana was a real banana,” Miles said. “I bit it and my teeth fell out. It was a solid gold banana.”
So Pete agreed to fly over the jungle in search of bananas. After two hours, Pete returned with his findings. Pete said, “I found a tree with a lot of bananas, but it’s going to be dangerous to get there.”
Miles said, “Fine, I’m not scared, because I’m brave and I want those bananas!”
Chapter 3: Off to the Tree
So Miles, Leah, and Pete all headed into the jungle but first they took something to protect themselves from the predators. They gathered some sticks and rocks. Miles, Pete, and Leah went on an adventure to the tree. They were walking through the jungle being led by Pete. Pete was flying ahead and told them to take a big blue palm tree. They got to the palm tree and a panther jumped out.
The panther said, “This is my land, who are you? What are you doing here?”
They felt a scared little wiggle in their tummies like butterflies.
Miles said, “We’re on an adventure to a banana tree of bananas? I’m very hungry, I didn’t eat yesterday. My friend, Pete, found this tree.”
Panther then said, “Well, if you promise to bring me back some bananas, I will let you go.”
Miles agreed to the deal and they kept walking on the path to the banana tree. As they kept walking, Pete told them to take a right turn, so they took the right. Pete did not see the pool of snakes waiting in the path. Miles and Leah were freaked out when they saw the poisonous snakes. Leah said, “We have to find a way to get over these snakes.”
Then Miles said, “We can swing from vine to vine, like I did yesterday during the obstacle course.”
As they swung from vine to vine, the snakes began to spring at them to bite their legs. Pete yelled, “Faster, faster!”
Miles and Leah yelled back, “We’re trying but it’s so hard with snakes below us!”
Miles and Leah made it across the snakes. “Whew, we made it.”
Miles asked Pete, “Are we almost there? I want to eat the bananas, I’m hungry.”
Pete said, “We’re almost there.”
Chapter 4: See You Again
Pete saw the tree and yelled, “I see the tree!”
Miles and Leah started dancing because they are so happy. Then, the cheetahs popped out and said, “Hello, Miles, nice to see you again.”
Leah said, “Who are these guys?”
“I met them in the obstacle course I told you about,” said Miles. “They tried to eat me.”
“Yes,” the cheetah said, “but this time, you will be our dinner.”
Then the cheetahs yelled, “Attack!”
Pete started to drop rock on the cheetahs, while Miles poked them with the sticks. The cheetahs then fell to the ground and said,
“We surrender, please stop poking us with the sticks, and tell your friend to stop throwing rocks.”
So Miles, Leah, and Pete stopped their attack. The cheetah moved out of the way and let them pass.
Chapter 5: Finally
Finally, they arrived at the tree and took as much as they could carry. Miles said, “We can’t forget panther.”
So they collected bananas for panther, too. After collecting the bananas, they headed home. On their way home, they stopped at a panther’s house and dropped off his bananas. They thanked him for letting them pass his land. Once they got to Miles’ house, they had dinner. Their dinner, of course, was bananas. Then Pete the Parrot said,
“I have to go back home to finish planting my tomatoes.”
Miles said, “Ok, goodbye, and thanks for showing us where the bananas were.” Miles said to Leah, “If you want to stay here with me, you can.”
Leah said, “Ok, I would love to stay with you.”