Cyril of the Apes

Cyril Bonhamy

by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Quentin Blake

When Cyril finds himself on location in the jungles of Brazil for a remake of Tarzan of the Apes he expects to laze in the sun and plenty of ice-cream. What he doesn't expect is to find himself lost in the middle of the jungle in a hairy gorilla suit or meeting a real life Tarzan!

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

British author born in 1933, nephew of the English garden writer Robert Gathorne-Hardy.

Reviews

[Derelict Space Sheep · Rating 2 out of 5]

A middling middle-grade adventure in which the protagonist—a crotchety writer with no redeeming features—embroils himself in various perils and through happenstance alone escapes them. The illustrations and tone of writing suggest this is supposed to be funny, but it isn’t.