One day, the library's bookmobile makes an unplanned stop at the local zoo. Molly the librarian finds that the animals love reading. They devour books (sometimes literally). Their love of reading encourages a love of writing. Soon every animal at the zoo is an author. The animals' voracious love of books necessitates the building of a zoobrary.

What I thought: What a delightful book! The language is pleasing and the pictures are colorful. This is an imaginative way to introduce children to the delights of reading. Sierra and Brown dedicate the book to Dr. Seuss. I can hear him in the language of the book and see him in the illustrations. A fitting tribute and a great book. Every librarian should have a copy. This one's going on my to buy list.

Could be a useful read-aloud to kick off a lesson (especially as given by a school media specialist) about book care.

After reading the author and illustrator bios at the back, I thought it provided some interesting context that the illustrator (Mark Brown, creator of Arthur the aardvark) drew upon his classical training while working on this book, “creating colorful paintings…that reflect the naive spirit of folk art at its best.” Definitely felt folk-artsy once my attention was called to this.

I'm giving this five stars on behalf of my daughter, who is 21 months old and has demanded that we read her this book approximately 1000 times in the last two weeks. I shouldn't really complain too much, as my wife ended up having to read it probably 90% of the time, but I still read it many many times myself. Thankfully, it is now back at the library.
The rhymes are great and it is pretty funny. I especially like the part where the scorpion reviews all the other animals' books, and the hissing cockroach's book just says "Hiss hiss hiss, etc."
We did try to hide it after a while, but first thing every morning in comes B who says "Where animals book?" We tried to say we didn't know, but her brother, trying to be helpful..."I'll help you find it B! Look here it is, behind these other books!" Then in she toddles with it. "Read animals book." Sigh. Nice teamwork kids.
The takeaway, of course, is that kids appear to very much enjoy this book.

Cute book about a bookmobile librarian who goes to the zoo and encourages all of the animals to read.

Wild About Books is about a woman named Molly who brings her bookmobile to the zoo. The animals wanted to learn what reading was, so they learned and ended up loving it. The book describes how every animal needed a different kind of book. For example, a giraffe needed a tall book because giraffes are tall. The animals loved reading so much that they started to write their own books. In the end, the animals created their own library full of the books they had written and visitors were able to come watch them read. I really enjoyed this book and think children ages 4-8 would enjoy it too. If they saw their favorite animal reading books, it might persuade them to want to read as well.

Clever lines and amusing, well draw illustrations! Boys (ages 3 and 6) laughed at the rhymes and enjoyed finding all the zoo animals doing funny things with their books. Then the animals became authors! The librarian was a fun and happy character. Boys learned about book mobiles. We are lucky enough to have our library very close so they'd never seen one. Very good celebration of books and libraries! We love our local library--the Dove branch of the Carlsbad library--and our local zoo--San Diego zoo--so this book was perfect for our family. Also a wonderful tribute to Dr Seuss--both within the story and at the end.

This book, written in the style of Dr. Seuss, is clever enough to appeal to adults as well as children.

This book is about a women named Molly who brought her library to the zoo and many of the wild animals were intrigued and came running to her side. The animals were interested in the readings and gathered around to read the books. They were finding all types of books to read. It also touches topic on how to treat books with carefulness and with love. Also, when the animals decided to become authors themselves can show students anybody can become a writer if they put their mind to it. This books also involves rhyming which can be used in the classroom when learning about rhyming words.

A librarian drives her bookmobile to the zoo by accident. The animals all become voracious readers. Some of the animal reader choices and pus are funny, others are forced or over the head of a young audience. Pictures are just ok. Overall this one is just meh. Not mad I read it but wouldn’t read it again.

This was fabulous and funny. I loved the illustrations and the story. It was enjoyable and fun. I liked the rhyming of the pages, and the mention of popular titles and authors. Absolutely would recommend and it could be good for a storytime too.

This is a wonderful tale in honor of Dr. Seuss. Filled with a fun and rhyming narrative, busy and colorful pictures, and nods to several different books, this is a great book to read aloud. Our girls really enjoyed it.

Three groups of littles loved the story! Sat silently (awe-struck?) for the entire story (with the exception of the dung, which had them rolling)! Great for reviewing book care & poetry. I used this for story time (National Poetry Month) and followed up with a haiku poem the students illustrated.