Chemical nomenclature Book

Unfortunately the story contained within the pages of David Ives' Monsieur Eek doesn't live up to the downright silliness of the character and location names. I giggled through the first couple chapters as we are introduced to such characters as "Onga the Fat Bread Maker" who is actually rather shapely, but makes bread that is fat and locations like "Only Street" which earned its name by being the town of MacOongaFoondsen's only street.

The humor in the premise of a chimp who is mistaken for a Frenchman wears thin pretty quickly as the book evolves into a rather straight-forward, and unfortunately quite boring, mystery. Perhaps if the titular character was given more to do it would have been better, but as it is Monsieur Eek is not nearly as good as David Ives' other young adult novels.