It's one thing to look at apes in a zoo! It's quite another to bring them up from babies, have them rule your home, possess your heart and bring more laughter and chaos into your life than you can imagine! Animal lovers will understand a family who complicated their lives and their travels with Great Danes, extra special mutts, cats and, above all, children. Non-animal lovers will immediately reform. The gibbons joined the Vanderhoefs in Bangkok and came home with them to the United States thereby causing the transference of a Thai family and the building of a new house to contain the ever growing multitude. They also caused an upheaval in the quiet course of events in the, then, small town of Vienna, Virginia. Gibbons are the smallest and most beautiful of the ape family. Penny and Pogo's inventiveness, humor, problems and intelligence would fill more than one book, but here they are, just as they climbed into the Vanderhoef family trees.