Betty Lou Phillips, renown interior designer and best-selling author.

See Why Children Everwhere are Wild about Emily

With fun to be had and lessons to be learned the adventures and misadventures of the ever-lovable monkey, Emily, are a must for ages 2 to 8 everywhere.

If you'd like a "tail" with a little French twist, then you'll absolutely fall in love with Madame DuBois and her pet monkey, Emily. Their lives in New Orleans are enriched with French American style - eating beignets at the outdoor market, dressing in stylish designer clothes, and sleeping in a frilly French-style bedroom.

Emily loves playing with makeup, swinging from chandeliers, and painting pictures on walls, but hiding is her favorite thing to do. Bookshelves, tall plants, and the kitchen wastebasket after she has dumped out the trash are a few of her favorite spots. Of course, Madame DuBois can always find Emily; all she has to do is look for the dreadful mess Emily leaves behind. Madame DuBois spends hours every day cleaning up after her pet until one day things drastically change and Emily goes wild! Read about each difficult and heartbreaking decision Madame DuBois must make. The heartwarming results will make you smile.

The precocious little monkey from Emily Goes Wild! continues her adventures in this charming board book. Emily bids adieux to her wild ways and minds her manners. Children will learn valuable lessons on manners

.Emily's Manners, serves as an etiquette "do and don'ts" with an illustration of the "Don't" on the left, and the correct protocol on the right.

Part of the Emily series, this toddler-friendly board book gives children visual pictures matched with everyday actions such as bouncing a ball, chasing a butterfly, dancing, riding a bike and going to bed. Emily "skips down the street and dances to the beat" in kinetic, silhouette paintings on a white background.