This collection features six stories about toddler Tom and his soft-toy monkey Pippo. Helen Oxenbury won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1979 and has been Highly Commended for the same award three times since: for Farmer Duck and We're Going on a Bear Hunt, both of which won the Smarties Book Prize (!991 and 1989 respectively), and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. Farmer Duck also won the 1992 British Book Award for Children's Illustrated Book of the Year. Other titles include It's my Birthday and So Much.