Pink Monkey

Inspired by long-time Deaf cultural folklore (and often a perennial late-night fireside favorite), the Pink Monkey is re-created with fun word-play twists about a lost teenager who encountered an unusual creature in a stranger’s mansion.

In this story, you will find exaggerations of perspective + scale. Bold colors. Quirky art materials. Dramatic idioms. A blurred sense of time. What’s real, and what’s not real?

“… butterflies in my stomach…”

This story is told in American Sign Language by Shira Grabelsky, a talented storyteller and proficient Deaf educator, and illustrated by JamiLee Hoglind, a digital collage buff and funky marketing guru. Packed with 200+ vocabulary words and 23 pages of ASL videos, this Storybook app is a proud addition to our collection of award-winning high-quality VL2 Storybook Apps.

VL2 Storybook Apps are designed based on proven research in bilingualism and visual learning to provide young visual learners an optimal reading experience.

Credits

• Storyteller: Shira Grabelsky

• Writer and Artist: JamiLee Hoglind

• Video Production: MJ Kiego, Conrad Baer, and Tayla Newman

• Graphic Designer: Yiqiao Wang

• App Production: Tayla Newman and Conrad Baer