Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever

Jim Panzee has a highly relatable problem. He wakes up one day feeling completely silly and takes off running and laughing through the jungle. When his friend Norman suggests Jim has spring fever, Jim rushes off to find a cure. Jim’s friend Water Buffalo informs Jim that he isn’t really sick: Jim just has a lot of energy because it’s spring and he needs to calm down. Then all of Jim’s friends start suggesting ways to calm down, but Jim just explodes angrily with energy.

Jim’s friends back away until Norman suggests that having a lot of energy isn’t bad: Jim just needs to do spring things like hide eggs, plant flowers and climb a tree. After doing all of these things, Jim yells happily that he doesn’t care who knows he has spring fever. With that, all of his friends catch his fever and start doing spring things, too.

So many times, young children are told to sit still and behave. Here, however, their irrepressible energy is seen as a positive if it’s channeled a good way. With spring rapidly approaching, maybe even a few lucky adults with catch their charges’ spring fever and join in the fun as well.