1. If You Give a Monkeya Banana Written and Illustrated by The Third Grade, 2010 with Mrs. Gumpper Illustrated using Microsoft Paint

2. If you give a Monkey a Banana, he will probably want a banana split. 2

3. Before he can make a banana split, he will need to go to the store to buy some ingredients. 3

4. Then he will put on his sweater, and take a Taxi to his parents Ice Cream Parlor and buy some chocolate & vanilla ice cream, bananas, colorful sprinkles, cherries, and whipped cream. 4

5. In the corner of the Ice Cream Parlor, he sees a bunch of balloons that remind him of a party…a banana split party! 5

6. So he decides to have a party. He calls his friends and asks them to bring soda, banana smoothies, banana pies and batteries for his toy banana train. 6

7. Monkey and his friends love banana splits and make all kinds. 7

8. They make banana splits with chocolate ice cream and whipped cream with cherries on the top… 8

9. …and others are made with vanilla ice cream with lots of sprinkles. 9

10. The sprinkles reminded monkey of rain, 10

11. And the rain reminded him of the Rain Forest where banana trees grow. Graceann 11

12. He decides he wants to plant banana trees in his garden … 12

13. And when he see’s bananas growing on his banana trees… 13

14. He will want a banana… 14

15. And chances are if you give a monkey a banana, he will want a banana split! 15

16. The End 16