Three Playful Monkeys

In the house of Dolly Smith, there are three monkeys: Ricky, Chicky, and Vicky. Whenever Dolly goes out on errands, she asks them to behave well. But as soon as the owner steps out the door, the monkeys start playing with everything they can see. Upon returning, Dolly discovers that the house is turned upside down. Neither pleas, nor tears, nor threats of punishment work on the little rascals. But one day, Dolly comes home, and it is unusually quiet; everywhere there is cleanliness and order. Where have Ricky, Chicky, and Vicky gone? Dolly peeks into every corner — the mischievous ones are nowhere to be found! Dolly cries from sorrow, scolding herself: why, why did she scold them so much? She is inconsolable until she accidentally finds the mischievous ones in the closet. And now she is crying with happiness, ready to endure the antics of her beloved monkeys forever.
There are few people in the world who know the secret of creating the perfect picture book as well as the authors of “Three Playful Monkeys” — the famous British cartoonist Quentin Blake and his student, artist Emma Chichester Clark. They had a lot of fun working together, and it's no surprise that the book turned out to be extraordinarily cheerful. In the character of Dolly Smith, every parent easily recognizes themselves. And in the images of the playful monkeys — their little fidgets.
The prose text of Quentin Blake was retold in verse by Olga Vladimirovna Kopylova. These cheerful rhymes are easy to memorize and perfectly convey the full range of emotions of the main character and the childlike spontaneity of her pets.