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Wild About Books
by
Judy Sierra (Goodreads Author),
Marc Brown
It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo.
In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal—tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. “She even found waterproof books for the otter, who nev...more
In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal—tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. “She even found waterproof books for the otter, who nev...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
August 10th 2004
by Knopf Books for Young Readers
(first published January 1st 2004)
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Although Wild About Books came out before Born to Read I read them in reverse order--lucky me! ☺ Now I see why people who had read this first were disappointed with Judy Sierra's second book. I agree! This is better than Born to Read!
Really, really cute! The animals in the zoo create their own library by writing their own books. The story is told all in rhyme and I don't know which is cuter--the delightful pictures or the sweet, clever play-on-words!
An all around treat-to-read, for young and ol...more
Really, really cute! The animals in the zoo create their own library by writing their own books. The story is told all in rhyme and I don't know which is cuter--the delightful pictures or the sweet, clever play-on-words!
An all around treat-to-read, for young and ol...more
When the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, first drives her bookmobile into the zoo the animals aren’t sure what to do. They keep their distance, but Molly draws them in by reading from Dr. Seuss and soon the animals stampede the bookmobile each time it arrives. Molly finds the right books for each animals taste, tall books on skyscrapers for the giraffes and waterproof copies of Harry Potter for the otters. And although she has to teach the termites not to eat the books and the bears not to...more
A librarian unleashes knowledge onto lower animals at a local zoo, causing an growth of literary culture in the animal population as well as a contempt for the things of man. This book is a scathing look at the library industry as a whole, how it began and how it will fall.
We begin our tale as Molly the Librarian “mistakenly” drives her bookmobile into the zoo. Despite the wording that this was no plan on Molly’s part, she decides to set up shop and entice the inhabitants of the zoo with literar...more
We begin our tale as Molly the Librarian “mistakenly” drives her bookmobile into the zoo. Despite the wording that this was no plan on Molly’s part, she decides to set up shop and entice the inhabitants of the zoo with literar...more
Mar 14, 2012
Crystal Marcos
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
librarians, animal lovers, book lovers, parents, grandparents
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 bookmo...more
Dedicated to the late Doctor Seuss, it is written in his rhyming likeness. A librarian mistakenly drives her bookmo...more
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This is an exceptional picture book for elementary students of all ages. The book brims with creativity. The language is rich and energized, and the bright, colorful pictures convey minuscule details to perfection. When read with cadence and rhythm, the words and pictures can captivate an audience of young readers. Throughout the book, Sierra makes clever mention of kids’ favorites, such as Dr. Seuss, Nancy Drew, Harry Potter, and the Wizard of Oz to name a few. In doing so, she addresses the im...more
May 22, 2011
dee
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Book lovers of all ages.
Shelves:
children-s-books
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...more
"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...more
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 de...more
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 de...more
What fun! I loved this story about a librarian who parks her bookmobile in the zoo, then proceeds to help the animals love books, find the stories they will like best, and understand how to treat books nicely. It's an absolute hoot and the text and illustrations both weave in many famous books; children will be familiar with some of them, and will probably giggle over the idea of otters reading Harry Potter, for example ;-) Sierra and Brown wrote this in honor of Dr. Seuss, and I think he would...more
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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 is a great children's book!! "Seuss"ian rhyme and Marc Brown's beautiful illustrations. You and your kids will be wild about this book.
A lively story written in prose about zoo animals falling in love with reading. A great read aloud book for home and the classroom!
This book, written in the style of Dr. Seuss, is clever enough to appeal to adults as well as children.
This book deserves 5 stars, but I’m giving it 4 because I hate zoos and don’t want them shown in a positive (and unrealistic) light. But otherwise the story and definitely the illustrations deserve 5 stars.
The illustrations are fabulous: big, bold, colorful, appealing art style, lush and intricate, and funny too. I love how the crocodiles are reading Peter Pan, the elephant is reading Dumbo, the giraffes are reading books about basketball, etc. etc. etc.
The rhyme is about a librarian with a boo...more
The illustrations are fabulous: big, bold, colorful, appealing art style, lush and intricate, and funny too. I love how the crocodiles are reading Peter Pan, the elephant is reading Dumbo, the giraffes are reading books about basketball, etc. etc. etc.
The rhyme is about a librarian with a boo...more
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This book is a great way to get children interested in reading. This books talks very positively about how fun it is to read. The pages pop with color and all the different animals will catch a child's attention. Seeing their favorite animal reading a book encourages them to want to read too. Not only does it promote reading, but also writing and being responsible. This is a great book to read to a class. If you have a bookshelf in your room a teacher could read this book to everyone to not only...more
Jun 30, 2010
jacky
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
preschool - grade school
Recommended to jacky by:
LPL Children's staff
Shelves:
picture-books,
lib-lew
This was a cute book merging the popular children's book topics of animals and books. I'm sure that the purpose of this book is to get kids excited about reading and the library, but do books like this really work? I'm not sure, but I bet librarians read them to kids often. Out of a lot of books like this, I must say that I liked this one. Not only am I a big fan of animals, but I found the references to real books very fun. Those were details that most kids wouldn't notice. I enjoyed the colorf...more
I listened to this story on cd on loan from the library.
In this story, Molly McGrew the librarian normally drives a bookmobile, but things get interesting when she accidentally turns into the local zoo. Once there she simply does what she knows best: she promotes reading.
From llamas reading dramas and hyenas enjoying joke books to a boa constrictor who loves Crictor, Molly soon has the entire population of the zoo reading. She opens a branch library at the zoo called the Zoobrary.
This book wou...more
In this story, Molly McGrew the librarian normally drives a bookmobile, but things get interesting when she accidentally turns into the local zoo. Once there she simply does what she knows best: she promotes reading.
From llamas reading dramas and hyenas enjoying joke books to a boa constrictor who loves Crictor, Molly soon has the entire population of the zoo reading. She opens a branch library at the zoo called the Zoobrary.
This book wou...more
I liked this book. I probably would have given it 4 stars if I liked the illustrations better. They are a bit ho-hum in my opinion. The book in itself is clever and fun. The rhyming text tells about a librarian who drove the bookmobile to the zoo. The animals were hesitant at first, but then they all became excited about books. The animals become so excited about reading that they start writing their own books. I like how Sierra alludes to actual books that kids might recognize, and I love the t...more
Wild About Books is written by Judy Sierra. The main character is Molly McGrew who is a Springfield librarian. Molly drives her Public Library Bookmobile into a zoo, and finds all the animals not reading. Molly begins reading, and captures the attention of the animals in the zoo. All the animals in the book leave their comfort zone. There is a book for every animal tall books for giraffes, small books for crickets, waterproof books for otters. Now, that the animals learned how to read they need...more
I doubly enjoyed this book because I have a love for both animals and poetry. This book gives great examples of defining characteristics of various animals around the world. From this book we could learn that pandas mainly live in China, hyenas are known for laughing, boa constrictors are capable of squeezing very tightly, bears lick things that they love, penguins have bills and porcupines have quills. It is truly a charming book of poetry that does a fine job introducing children to different...more
Even though Wild About Books (published 2004) has been around the zoo a time or two, I wanted to highlight it as a fun picture book about the love of reading.
Plus, who can resist the book’s heroine, librarian Molly McGrew? Not I, said the librarian. Wild About Books opens with McGrew’s accidental appearance at the zoo with her bookmobile. Even though it was not her intended destination, it proves fortuitous as the animals embrace her books with an unprecedented passion, all stampeding to reading...more
Plus, who can resist the book’s heroine, librarian Molly McGrew? Not I, said the librarian. Wild About Books opens with McGrew’s accidental appearance at the zoo with her bookmobile. Even though it was not her intended destination, it proves fortuitous as the animals embrace her books with an unprecedented passion, all stampeding to reading...more
Judy SierraThis book by Random House Kids is appropriate for ages 4-8. It is sweet and adorable and would be perfect for a Librarian to read to children as she/he is getting them familiar with the library. My favorite parts were bugs that were scribbling haiku at the new insect zoo and the scorpion who gave stinging reviews! I also liked the hippo who was very surprised when her memoir was given teh Zoolitzer prize!
This books was so clever! A librarian brings books for animals to read and they all love them so much they start their own Zoobrary. What a great idea! Look at the illustrations carefully and you'll see actual titles of real books, each one suited perfectly for each animal. Would be a great way to get a child interested in other books in the future. Pre K - 2nd grade.
From SLJ:
"The author's sense of playfulness in plot and language ("llamas read while eating their llunches"; a hippo wins the "Zoo...more
From SLJ:
"The author's sense of playfulness in plot and language ("llamas read while eating their llunches"; a hippo wins the "Zoo...more
I didn't like this book very much but I see that it had a good point about how everyone likes different books and everyone is at their own level in reading and writing. This was represented by each and every one of the animals being unique in that they all liked different books and each of them was at a different level. This can teach kids to choose what they like and to not be discouraged if others dont like the same things or if others are at a more accelerated level of reading and writing.
This is a very fun, cute book with great rhymes, and—bonus!—my third graders were totally silent the whole time I was reading it. They really enjoyed the story; the part where the otter reads Harry Potter got quite a few laughs.
Not only is it a cute story on its own, but it was also a great introduction to talking about the location of different kinds of books in our library again, because the third graders are having a hard time remembering where everything is in the library.
Not only is it a cute story on its own, but it was also a great introduction to talking about the location of different kinds of books in our library again, because the third graders are having a hard time remembering where everything is in the library.
This book is a laugh and a half! Books about animals at the zoo are always fun, but a bookmobile at the zoo just things to a whole new level of awesome. I have a particular appreciation of the spelling in the line "And llamas read dramas while eating their llunches," and I love the scorpion who ruthlessly criticizes the poetry written by the other insects. The rhyming and meter weren't perfect the whole way through, but this is still a great book that's fun to read aloud!
4.5 - It's hard to go wrong with a childrens book that has animals and books in it. Throw in some fun rhyming sentences and you have a winner in my house!
I haven't read the other book some reviewers have mentioned, Born to Read, and although just about everyone says this is better I think I'd like to and will, read it for myself to compare.
I wasn't in love with the illustrations myself but I can't say anything negative about this. I just would have preferred a different way personally. Julia di...more
I haven't read the other book some reviewers have mentioned, Born to Read, and although just about everyone says this is better I think I'd like to and will, read it for myself to compare.
I wasn't in love with the illustrations myself but I can't say anything negative about this. I just would have preferred a different way personally. Julia di...more
A wild story about a librarian, Molly McGrew who takes a wrong turn into the zoo while driving her bookmobile. Molly reads a Dr. Seuss book for all of the animals and then they are excited about reading! All of the animals come to love books that suit their tastes and lives.
The book is written with the same rhyme scheme as The Cat in the Hat making it easy for kids to read along. A great story for little kids and early grade school kids.
The book is written with the same rhyme scheme as The Cat in the Hat making it easy for kids to read along. A great story for little kids and early grade school kids.
Very colorful with wonderful illustrations. This would be a great book for kids to learn more about animals. I enjoyed seeing what the different kinds of animals were reading and writing. I love the rhyme as well, and the references to haiku and story-writing. I could see this used in a middle school classroom as a fun introduction to writing or to reading poetry. It would be fun for kids to think up what books animals might be interested in. Definitely recommended!
Age: 5-9
Media: Watercolor and ink
Award: E. B. White Read Aloud
Molly the librarian accidentally parks the bookmobile in the zoo and the animals soon delight in the joys of reading with the enthusiastic support of their librarian. They even end up opening a branch library!
Lovely for reading aloud and discussing the library's many features. The rhyming allows a pleasant flow but the cadence should be avoided in order to focus on the words rather than the rhythm.
Media: Watercolor and ink
Award: E. B. White Read Aloud
Molly the librarian accidentally parks the bookmobile in the zoo and the animals soon delight in the joys of reading with the enthusiastic support of their librarian. They even end up opening a branch library!
Lovely for reading aloud and discussing the library's many features. The rhyming allows a pleasant flow but the cadence should be avoided in order to focus on the words rather than the rhythm.
Picture Book 34: I actually read the book "Wild About You" but I couldn't find it. I really liked this book because I am obsessed with Giraffes and there were so many pictures of giraffes in it! I love reading books about animals because it makes the book more enjoyable and cute. I would recommend this to parents who have children already and are pregnant with another one to teach the children that they already have that babies are important and need families.
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Oct 12, 2008 08:18am
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