When the Monkeys Came Back Author:Kristine L. Franklin, Robert Roth (Illustrator) When Dona Marta was a little girl, the valley she lived in was a quiet place -- except for the howler monkeys who hooted and barked and howled to each other every dawn and dusk. — But one day some men from the city offered Marta's father a lot of money to cut down some of the trees on his land. In a few years all the trees were gone, and the ... more »monkeys disappeared as well.
After Marta married, she asked her husband for a bit of land and made it her project to plant trees on it and care for them. Her children helped, and her children's children. And one day, the monkeys came back.
This story, set in Costa Rica, tells of one woman's dream for her village, and how she made it come true.« less