I absolutely LOVED this book. I think it resonated with me so well because I don’t read for pleasure - I really hope that having a book like this available for children to read would inspire them to love books. If animals can, so can you…right?!

The illustrations were beautiful, so detailed and they really caught my eye - so colourful. I particularly loved the ending, anyone who has been to a zoo will know that it is really hit and miss as to how many animals you will see but…could they be tucked away reading a wonderful book?!

On a summer afternoon Molly McGrew drives her bookmobile into a zoo then starts to read aloud and she gets the attention of an unexpected audience what happens next you’d have to read to find out. This humorous tale tells the reader about books and all things about books through the fun use of zoo animals. The book is covered in colorful interesting pictures from top to bottom. The story rolls of the tongue with ease because of the rhyming qualities it has. The story uses imaginary words to help further the humorous aspect of the story. This book is for beginning readers because it uses simple sentences and easy words. Overall this is a great story that engages the reader into learning everything about books.

Copyright, 2004.
This is a concept book revolving around animals. Overall it is fun and I really enjoyed it. I loved the rhyming and illustrations. This book would be useful for encouraging students to keep reading.

I was fortunate to have Marc Brown sign this book for my 18 month old son. It is one of my son's favorite books. It was dedicated to Dr. Seuss and is very fun to read out loud.

This was a rhyming book. It was about a bunch of animals at the zoo who just found about reading. They each had their own kind of books that they enjoyed reading. In the book it made each animals enjoy reading something that rhymed with its name.

First Read February 2017
Re-read August 2017
Re-read August 2018

Genre: Picture Book
Main Character: Molly McGrew, a librarian
Setting: a zoo

I discovered this book when I was searching for picture books that promote reading to share with my college students. This rhyming story about a librarian who accidentally drives her bookmobile into the zoo is delightful. All of the animals find books to read and love, many you may have read too. This book has become a regular part of my read aloud line up for my children’s literature class.

This is a rhyming picture book that starts with librarian Molly driving her bookmobile into a zoo. She soon starts reading aloud and attracts all sorts of animals to this new thing called reading. This book offers a great explanation to children of why they sometimes may not see all the animals when they visit the zoo, they may be hiding away reading. Brown does a wonderful job filling all the pages with pictures to pull in the children and show examples of what animals they may have never seen look like. I think this book is great for kindergarten and first grade and getting students interested in reading. Wild About Animals will be a great book for read aloud and students can use their creativity to draw pictures and imagine what animals would look like reading some of their favorite stories. One critique I have of this book is that there are a few animals that most people are not familiar with. While these would be good places to stop and have the children explore new animals and what they look like and where they can be found, it could potentially break up the text. There are also some words that students will need more explanation about like niches and pretentious for example. This book was Booklist reviewed and won the ALA Notable Books for Children Award in 2005.

This book is about a zoo full of animals that love books and end up staying hidden from the visitors at the zoo, but it turns out that they were all cozied up and reading. In class I could use this as an activity to have everyone pick their favorite books and show them to the class.

This is the coolest story about learning to LOVE to READ. Any book, even though the main characters are animals too, that will create a positive image on Reading is definitely a 5-star book in my opinion.
The book goes through how all the different animals in a zoo(and there were many different animals named) wind up learning to love to read themselves, and that love of reading turns into a love of writing, and darn of those animals don't end up with their own Library in the ZOO!!! They start out hearing story time from a librarian who drives her bookmobile RIGHT into the zoo one day. Their love grows on and on from their.
Good positive story!!!

I own this book and bought a copy for my sister and my nephew. We both really adore this book and so do our little ones. I revisited it again recently because of Doctor Seuss' birthday and I am a member in a Children's book group here on Goodreads where this month's theme is Librarians. Here is the group for anyone who loves Children's Books: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

Dedicated to the late Doctor Seuss, it is written in his rhyming likeness. A librarian mistakenly drives her bookmobile into the zoo and something spectacular happens to the animals! Marc Brown illustrated the picture book. I am already a fan. Now, I appreciate his work that much more. I just love the illustration of the hippo caressing a book and I smile right back at its enormous grin. The hippo had just won the Zooliter Prize after all! The illustrations are just fun! The story is wonderful, clever, and charming. I would gladly give this as a gift to a child, a parent, grandparents, a librarian, or a picture book lover. There are added touches in the illustrations and lots to look at that you really could read this over and over and find something new each time.

The book has animals, books, a librarian, and written in Seussian rhyme, how could you go wrong?

A remarkable tale on why we miss seeing some animals at the zoo.
They're cuddling up to a good book, reading.
The author's whimsy shines in rhyme.
She displays the joys of reading to its fullest potential.
Energetic picture art throughout every page, bringing an array of brilliant colorful characters to life.
A positive light on books for children to encourage not only reading, yet to create their own stories as well.

With a rollicking rhyme - "It started the summer of 2002, / When the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, / by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo." - and exuberantly entertaining illustrations, Wild About Books is one picture-book that just begs to be read aloud! Slowly seduced by the power of story, and by the charms of storyteller Molly McGrew, the animal residents of the Springfield zoo eventually find themselves both bibliophiles and budding authors, a process which culminates in the construction of their very own "zoobrary."

Dedicated to the incomparable Dr. Seuss, and in much the same vein, this appealing title would make an excellent story-hour selection. I enjoyed the sing-song style of the text, which moves along at a nice clip, and boasts a rhyming scheme that reads very well, and never feels forced, and found the artwork by Marc Brown (creator of the n  Arthurn books) quite appealing. Humorous and heartwarming, this is a book I would recommend to young bibliophiles and animal lovers, as well as to anyone looking for good children's stories for story-hour or bedtime reading.