Weekend Reading -- Dear Zoo

Look out kids, I'm afraid the Zoo sent another package

ADDED July 11, 2008

A fun flap book for little kids, Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell is about a zoo trying its best to send a new pet to a child.

Each page shows a crate, a carton, or a cage, and your kid can move the flap to see which animal is inside.  No matter what, the hapless zoo always sends the wrong animal--none are suitable for pets.  The zoo sends an elephant, but it is too heavy.  It sends a giraffe, who is found to be too tall.  The lion is too fierce, and so on.

We don't want to give away any of the plot's twists and turns, but in the end, things work out pretty well.  There is a happy ending.

This is a cute, fun book that will make for a nice reading time with your toddler.  So get out of the sun this weekend and curl up with a book.

(And don't worry, the lion here isn't all that fierce.  Really, there's no danger.)

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