by Alexander McCall Smith · Scholastic Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780439013321
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«Monkey Boy» is the children's adventure novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Scholastic Children's Books in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Professor Frederick J. Dodd, of the Institute of Monkeyology, believes George O'Tang looks very much like a monkey. The boy becomes the professor's assistant to rescue the rare Congo Stripy monkeys from a gang of evil gorillas, in an adventure of swinging through trees and encounters with crocodiles.
It was originally published in 2000, and the paperback edition includes illustrations by Tania Hurt-Newton.
Aimed at children aged 7 and up, it is an adventure read with animals, jungle and action.
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
