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Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet6/22/2023 ![]() The plantation owner derides her, saying she is too little to pick the tea, and Tashi is worried about how she and her mother will cope with no money to get her mum a doctor, or to buy food. ![]() One morning, Tashi's mum is too poorly to go to work, so Tashi struggles with the big tea basket herself. Usually Tashi goes along with her mum, and whilst mum picks tea leaves with the other women, Tashi sits under a tree and plays with a group of monkeys, sharing her fruit with them, allowing them to groom her and playing with the little baby monkeys. Tashi and her mother live below a tea plantation in India. ![]() Summary: Beautiful, traditionally illustrated folk tale about a little girl's friendship with some helpful monkeys. ![]()
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