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    Wild About Books
    Wild About Books
    Wild About Books
    Audiobook7 minutes

    Wild About Books

    Written by Judy Sierra

    Narrated by Catherine O'Hara

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Librarian Molly McGrew introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. And in no time, they are "forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks," going "wild, simply wild, about wonderful books!"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWeston Woods
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
    ISBN9780545836722
    Wild About Books

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    • 5/5
      My 5-year-old's review: "This is a very good book."
    • 5/5
      In this book, Molly introduces animals to booksd and they start loving them! She finds the perfect books for every different animal. The animals escape the zoo and start reading books on their own. This book is categorized as fantasy because the animals are in a believable setting and it is logically consistent throughout the book, but animals can't read and talk. Genre: Fantasy Age Appropriateness: Intermediate
    • 4/5
      This is a cute book about a bookmobile that visits a zoo, where the animals get hooked on reading and writing! I enjoyed the colorful pictures, as well as the variety of animals represented in this story.
    • 4/5
      I absolutely loved Wild About Books! We listened to a soundtrack telling the story in class, while Professor McDonough held up the illustrations. Presenting the book this way, with sounds and songs, really enhanced the mood of the story. The illustrations were amazing and the style fit the written text. The language was both descriptive and patterned, with the use of rhyme. The writing had a great pace with an upbeat, silly feel to it. The message of the story was book skills, and the importance of respecting books.
    • 4/5
      Colorful illustrations that interpret story. Great imaginative book to read aloud for library introduction.
    • 5/5
      This book explores the excitement of reading through zoo animals reading and using their imagination. This is a good fantasy because its a good balance between real things and fantasy. It gives the students a chance to make connections with reading and how it can be exciting. But it shows that through zoo animals which is a nice fantasy touch and young students really find fascinating.
    • 5/5
      Many different animals all share the same passion in this book: books! This book can teach children about different animals and make them laugh along the way.
    • 4/5
      This is a book where Molly McGrew takes her library on wheels, and accidentally ends up at the zoo. She ends up getting the animals addicted to the books that she has in her portable library. The book goes through all of the different animals and how they use the books. It starts from them reading the books, to licking the pictures off the pages, and to writing their own books. The animals love the books so much that they build their own library at the zoo. Genre: fantasy, animals cannot read or write books.
    • 4/5
      I love rhyming books especially when they involve animals and this book offers both. Wild About Books is about a group of animals that fall in love with reading.
    • 5/5
      A bookmobile comes to the zoo, and the animals check out the books. This was a wonderful book! I read it to both of my sons when they were little and they enjoyed it immensely. Both wanted it read over and over. The rhymes were done well, and not at all forced, and the story was very imaginative. My oldest used to yell out from his bed "A mink and a moose!"This will be a book that we keep in our house long after the boys are grown.
    • 4/5
      The day librarian Molly McGrew brings her bookmobile to the local zoo changes the lives of the animals there forever. The story fits right into a school setting due to its many teachable aspects. Its theme of literacy and book love will help educators turn children into life-long readers. Bookworms of all ages will enjoy references to texts from Nancy Drew to Harry Potter. The text also harkens back to the rhymes used by Seuss himself, and he is the one the book is dedicated to. The book can also be used to teach animal identification because many familiar and some unfamiliar animals are featured in the illustrations.The illustrations will be fun for readers because they capture the excitement of the wild readers as they learn about books. They have lots of animals to count, and there are plenty of references and gags in the books the animals are reading. The animals featured are realistic enough to be recognizable but cartoonish enough to be expressive. Wild About Books would be fun for story time because of the vibrant illustrations, the rhyming text, and the love of books the creators wanted to share with a younger generation.
    • 5/5
      I loved this the minute I saw it. The lilting rhymes move the story right along, the lively drawings are both humorous and colorful, and the books' titles which the various animals read are cleverly attuned to both the animal reading them an adult's knowledge of books. The purpose of this book, to encourage and inculcate a love of reading, is wonderfully fulfilled in this cheerful and engaging book.If you like Dr. Seuss and/or Bill Peet, you and your children will like this. (The dedication at the end, signed by both author and illustrator honors Dr. Seuss.)
    • 4/5
      The fact that it has my name in it biases me a little, but I really enjoyed this book. The rhymes are clever and the story even more-so. I read this to my mother's fourth graders and they enjoyed it (especially the otters reading Harry Potter).
    • 5/5
      Librarian, Molly McGrew, accidentally drives her book mobile in a zoo. She introduces all the animals to books and reading. They all loved books so much they began to write their own books. There were so many new books, they had to open their own zoobraby. I loved this book! It was very cute and referred to a lot of relevant books to today's generations, like Harry Potter. I think this book with get children excited to read and become book lovers themselves.
    • 4/5
      Animals at the zoo find a love for reading that leads to the creation of a zoobrary. Poety
    • 5/5
      This is a great book to get childrens attention on how great reading can be. It uses a variety of zoo animals that have different interest and that there is a book for everyone.
    • 4/5
      Wild About Books is a modern fantasy that encourages excitement about books and reading flowing into being able to write. Children will love this story of zoo animals reading and writing and Judy Sierra does a wonderful job a putting the words into rhyme. This book is appropriate for beginning readers.
    • 5/5
      I really loved everything about this book, the illustrations, the flow and the message. Out of all of the books about books that I have read so far, this one is definitely my favorite. It is exciting and interesting and a must read to my children.
    • 5/5
      This modern fantasy was about a librarian named Molly who drove her library truck into the zoo. Molly opens up the library to all of the animals who go, "wild, simply wild, over wonderful books". Molly finds all of the different animals all of the different books they need, like tall books for giraffes. Reading inspires the animals to explore their own talents in writing poems and ballads and perform plays. SOme of the animals treat the books badly however they all work with Molly and the problem is resolved and the books are much loved again. This book would inspire young and old readers alike to go wild over wonderful books.
    • 4/5
      Exciting, very cute, rhyming book. This is a great book to encourage children to read. This would be a book to teach along with a science lesson about animals.
    • 4/5
      The clever, rhyming verses in combination with big, bold, colorful illustrations and appealing art style make this book about books one of my favorite new discoveries. Dedicated to the late Doctor Seuss, it is written in his rhyming likeness. I love how the crocodiles are reading Peter Pan, the elephant is reading Dumbo and the giraffes are reading books about basketball.
    • 5/5
      I love this book and my son loves this book - but I probably love it more. The librarian accidently? drives the bookmobile into the zoo and before you know the animals are reading. The rhythm flows nicely and it's clever and the pictures are charming. Big thumbs up!
    • 5/5
      Book Review Template:This book is called "Wild About Books" and it is written by Judy Sierra, with pictures by Marc Brown. This book is about a librarian who brings her mobile library to the zoo. Soon the animals are going crazy over all of the different stories and types of books. The animals love reading books so much that they decide to start writing their own books and giving reviews of others. The animals are convinced that they can have their very own library at the zoo and take care of their own books. I think my favorite part of this book is when the scorpion is giving reviews of other animals books. If you like funny books about reading, you'll love this book! This book makes you go wild, simply, wild about all the wonderful books.
    • 5/5
      This is cute and clever story about what happens when a bookmobile accidentally ends up at the zoo and all of the animals become wild about books.
    • 4/5
      This book was an educational way to introduce reading as a fun hobby to children, and I really enjoyed it. It starts with a librarian who mistakenly drove her public library “bookmobile” out near a zoo, and from there described how excited all of the animals were to pick out books on topics that they found interesting. I also liked how the book referenced Dr. Suees and Nancy Drew, and how all of the animals came running towards her to hear her read during the book. The author writes: “Forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks, they went wild, simply wild, about wonderful books,” which subtly shows what kinds of habitats animals live in/could be a good discussion to have after the book is read to a class. The idea of wild animals (or a child’s favorite animal) being excited for reading will make them more inclined to enjoy reading as well. In addition, the illustrations are colorful and exciting and “wild,” and show all different kinds of animals on each page reading books that children might find familiar like Peter Pan and Dumbo. Throughout the book, I was connecting with familiar authors and titles, so I got to thinking about how fun it would be for kids to relate to a book that a hippopotamus was reading in this book. I also liked how the book was written in sing-songy rhymes, like “the pandas demanded more books in Chinese. Molly filled their requests, always eager to please.” This shows that librarians are very helpful and there are tons of books to choose from at the library, whatever you’re interested in you should explore. This specific example also informed readers that pandas live in China. As the book progresses, the animals decide to write their own books. I think this was a clever way to relate reading and writing, and maybe even spark creativity in children to do the same. She used relatable school struggles like “And although the gazelle couldn’t spell very well, like everyone else, she had stories to tell” that could help give children more confidence in learning from their mistakes and continuing to write. The last part of the book that I thought was very cute was when the animals changed the name in the zoo to “Zoobrary.”
    • 5/5
      This is a book about a girl whose book mobile runs into a zoo. When this happens all of the animals fall in love with the book. This book could be used in many lessons: lessons on poetry, lessons on animals, and even lessons on books.
    • 5/5
      A book about a mobile librarian who accidentally stumbles upon a zoo, and finds the animals eager to read. This book is a book about books, and therefore could get an unwilling child excited about reading. It is also good because it introduces a broad scope of animals and vocabulary words to young children.
    • 5/5
      I liked the book, Wild about Books, by Judy Sierra. The big idea in this book is a librarian that accidently drives the book mobile to the zoo. The animals humorously go “wild” for books. The author uses well-known book titles to capture the audience. For example, the baby bunnies read “Goodnight Moon,” and the tree kangaroo read, “Nancy Drew.” There was also rhyming in the story that made the book fun to read. The lines of the story were poetic. The end of each line had an aa, bb, cc pattern. This was evident throughout the story. For example, “shape, ape; well, tell; surprise, prize.”
    • 4/5
      A book mobile accidentally ends up at the zoo and the animals love the books, each animal reads all day. This is a great book about books and could be using when teaching about books, animals, and rhyming.
    • 3/5
      Summary: Wild About Books is about a zookeeper that brings books to her animals at the zoo. At first the animals did not know what to think about the books, but eventually they all fell in love with reading and they were all reading every chance they got!Personal Reflection:This is a great book to get children into reading as well as teaching them about different animals at the same time. Personally, I thought it was very cute and I enjoyed reading it.Classroom Extensions:1. Showing examples for rhyming2. Teaching about different animals (origins, habtits, etc.)3. Showing hoe reading can be fun for everyone.