The Golden Cheese by Maria Ellis is a story of a little mouse who wants to get a golden cheese that will help him live in a palatial house with lots of money and respect from others. That is his biggest dream. But he is...

Bedtime for children is often filled with excuses in the attempt to avoid the inevitable: going to bed and going to sleep for the night. Monkey Bandit is no different. He wants to finish building a castle, or finish drawing circles – anything to avoid...

Rules are rules and there are some very important rules all children need to follow. For example, playing with a ball inside the house is forbidden. Monkey Bandit knows this rule and, for the most part, he follows it. That is until one day, when...

Like all little children, Monkey Bandit has a lot to learn. It’s all part of growing up. One of the more sensitive issues (at least it’s sensitive to adults), is the issue of potty training. Monkey Bandit uses the garden in the backyard as his...

Monkey Bandit found something on the bathroom floor and he was happy about that. Monkey Bandit liked finding things. He looked to his left and right and saw nobody there. He picked it up. He saw the bristles on the top of the thing and...

Maria Ellis presents Where is My Tiara? which is a children’s tale in this reading level 2 story of The Adventures of Princess Super Kitty Cat and Mousimus, Volume 1. Maria Ellis, inspired by her time as a teacher as well as her surroundings, shares...

Monkey Bandit goes to play with Lilly in the storybook Monkey Bandit: Manners on a Playdate by Maria Ellis. Monkey Bandit is very excited at seeing all the toys and he sees Lilly painting. Monkey Bandit snatches the brush from her hand and starts to...

Silly Fun on the Farm: 5 Word-by-Word Build-Up Funny Stories by Maria Ellis is written for very beginning readers. There are five stories, each containing 25-30 words and the stories build by introducing words like “pig” and “duck” and then combining the words into a...