“We long ago made a list of jobs we thought would be funniest for a baby monkey, and private eye always topped the list,” Serlin says. “Once we decided that Baby Monkey was a private eye, we realized that giving him an office straight out of film noir was not enough,” Serlin explains. “We were just thinking about how to best tell the story about a baby monkey solving crimes,” he says. Plus, most of the pages are taken up with Baby Monkey trying to get his pants on! Baby Monkey told us that the book needed to be 200 pages, and we graciously complied.”

Source: New York Times March 09, 2018 16:30 UTC