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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

An amazing book with beautiful animations.

Fun library book!

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.

Delightful! I loved the mention of other books, such as when the constrictor squeezed Crictor too tight. My favorite, though, were the scorpion's stinging reviews of the haikus. I actually laughed out loud.

Today was our annual field trip day to the local zoo. Although I had no time to read a story to my kiddos today, I'm deciding to review this one for my daily picture book contribution. This was introduced to me in college, and I thought it was wonderfully done. It was written and illustrated as a tribute to the late Dr. Seuss. It combines animals and the love of reading - sounds like a perfect combination to me! Young students love spending time with this one for multiple reasons!

Copyright 2004. Genre Concept. I love the fact that reading is important for everyone in this adorable rhyming book. In my classroom, I could use this book to encourage all my students to seek out books that interest them.

Love this book! I can't read it in it's entirely in storytime because it's just a teeny bit too long, but I think it works well with 3-5 age group.