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It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo.

In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal--tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. "She even found waterproof books for the otter, who never went swimming without Harry Potter." In no time at all, Molly has them "forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks," going "wild, simply wild, about wonderful books." Judy Sierra's funny animal tale coupled with Marc Brown's lush, fanciful paintings will have the same effect on young Homo sapiens. Altogether, it's more fun than a barrel of monkeys!

40 pages, Hardcover

First published August 10,2004
Literary awards
e.b. white read aloud award, california young readers medal, oregon spirit book award, irma black award, donna norvell award, 

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Format
40 pages, Hardcover
Published
January 1, 2004 by Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN
9780375825385
ASIN
037582538X
Language
English

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IAmBabitz
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April 1,2025
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Molly brings books to the library one day and tries to get the animals to begin reading. Eventually one by one she gets every animal in the zoo to start reading. They absolutely love it and can't get enough books. As a result she eventually works with them to build a zoobrary or a zoo library. This would be a great book to promote reading in the younger grades. If cool animals love to do it so much why wouldn't the students also give it a try. We could also read in all different places "habitats" outside so we are just like the zoo animals.
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Noofar
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April 1,2025
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When the librarian shows up in her bookmobile, the animals at the zoo don't know what to make of her. But this librarian is good at matching books to their readers and she soon has the whole zoo wild about books.
A fun, colorful, rhyming book. A bit longish for the toddler group but easily edited down. Kids will love seeing how the different genres are matched to these animals. A fun title, great for zoo-themed storytime.
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TriGunMaster
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April 1,2025
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One of my favorite read-alouds. The rhyming scheme is fun and catchy and the pictures, by Arthur's author and artist, Marc Brown, are fun and engaging.
This is a wonderful book for all elementary age students.
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What a fun-loving book. From the rhyming to the drawings, to the book covers within the pages and to the story line, I loved every word and picture of it. Very clever! Hats off to Judy Sierra and Marc Brown. What a special dedication to their favorite doctor on the last page too!
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gakinotsukai
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The librarian goes to the zoo and begins to read to the animals who love it. The text is in verse which greatly enhances the story.
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April 1,2025
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I wish I had found this one a few months ago when tutoring my little guy. We studies the animals and this would have been the perfect book. It is full of witty & rolling rhymes about a librarian who mistakenly takes her bookmobile to the zoo. She finds the perfect book for every animal.

"By reading aloud from the good Dr. Seuss,
She quickly attracted a mink and a moose,
A wombat, an oryx, a lemur a lynx,
Eight elephant calves, and a family of skinks.

This book was illustrated by Marc Brown and is wonderful with all the little detail that has show up in his work.

Raccoons read alone and baboons read in bunches.
And llamas read dramas while eating their llunches.
Hyenas shared jokes with the red-bellied snakes,
and they howled and they hissed till their funny bones ached.

At the new insect zoo, bugs were scribbling haiku.
(The scorpion gave each a stinging review.)

Example:
The giant hissing cockroach wrote;

Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss-
hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss-
Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss.

The scorpion scowls "Redundant."

"This book is for our favorite doctor,
artists, poet, fun concocter:
Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991
---Judy Sierra and Marc Brown

Dr. Seuss' inspiration shines in this book.


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