Drawing for an abortive children's book

My father hates Hates HATES monkeys. I don't know why and never really could get a good answer from him on how that particular personal position concerning our simian friends manifested itself in his life. Suffice it to say, he does not like monkeys.

Recognizing this, I amused myself one time by coming up with the story for a childern's book entitled Daddy Didn't Like the Monkey! It revolved around a young boy who described the members of his family and their love for the monkey - all except the daddy, who hated and plotted the monkey's demise through increasingly brutal means. Probably a bit too extreme for a child's book, but it was funny to me in a Edward Gorey-esque kind of way. Here is the initial art for the monkey character. Why he is drinking a martini, I don't know, but perhaps this was a factor in why Daddy didn't like the monkey!