Product reviews for The Monkey-Proof Box

If you would like your pupils to get more enjoyment out of challenging tasks, then this is the book for you! The Monkey-Proof Box offers some lovely ideas for encouraging children to step out of their comfort zone, unleash their curiosity and apply their creative thinking.

The book's title comes from a scene in a nature documentary in which a group of monkeys were faced with a -˜monkey-proof box', which prompted them to display a great degree of curiosity and creativity in order to extract the food from within it. And so it could be with pupils: not in terms of food perhaps, but certainly in terms of classroom culture. If we replace easy with engaging, straightforward with puzzling, and simple with stretching, then we could engage similar levels of innovation and determination in our learners. Imagine how productive that could be!