Pat the Zoo

by Golden Books, LV Studio (Illustrator)

A fun and exciting touch-and-feel book featuring one of the best-selling children’s book characters of all time - Pat the Bunny!

Pat the Bunny has been creating special first-time moments between parents and their children for over 75 years. This engaging touch-and-feel book takes babies on a playful trip to the zoo where they can pet animals like lions, pandas, turtles, and more, all the while making cherished memories that will last a lifetime.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

16 pages, Board Book

First published August 7, 2012

About the author

In 1942, the launch of Little Golden Books revolutionized children’s book publishing by making high-quality picture books available at affordable prices. More than 60 years later, many of the original Golden Book titles are still wildly popular, with The Poky Little Puppy topping the list of ten bestselling children’s books of all time. Golden Books’ backlist is teeming with classics such as Dorothy Kunhardt’s Pat the Bunny, and features the stories and artwork of children’s book legends Mary Blair, Margaret Wise Brown, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkins, Garth Williams, and many more. Today, the Golden Books imprint includes an array of storybooks, novelty books, and coloring and activity books featuring all of the most popular licenses, including Disney, Nickelodeon, Barbie, Thomas & Friends, The Cat in the Hat, Sesame Street, Marvel Super Heroes, and DC Super Friends. Golden Books continues to reissue the best of its backlist in a variety of formats, including ebooks and apps, as well as bringing out brand-new books in these evolving new formats.

Reviews

[Megan]

Hazel would like me to give this book a higher rating based on the bird feathers she likes to rip out in handfuls, but I just can't get over the darkness of the concept of a bunny visiting other animals at the zoo. Sara likes to point out the risk of salmonella whenever we pat the turtle.

[Deb Duhl]

Took my daughter to Barnes and Noble today. Once I saw this book I had to get it for her. She enjoys feeling the textures for all of the animals. This is one of my favorite books that I’ve bought for her. I like the bird, turtle, frog and seal pages in the book.

[Tonantzin]

Lowkey mid I like the other Pat the bunny’s more this is like made simpler for this generation 🙄

[Meredith]

Baby love love LOVES Pat the Bunny, so when I found this tucked away at my local Half Price Books there was no WAY I wasn't going to buy. Not disappointed! Baby loves it and we have read it many, MANY times and will be reading it many many more.

[Geni]

Lydia loves this book...especially the red feathers...

[Tracy]

Kiddo is a big fan of Pat the Bunny and Peek-a-Boo Bunny, and so far the fluffy bird feathers in here are the hit of the last pile of kids' books I brought home, so...

[Rebecca]

The little that I watch loves this book. We read it several times.

[Alicia]

Loved this more than the original! I liked the rhythmic cadence, the variety of animals, and the expansion of tactile experiences for the audience. The board book format wins out over the original, "Pat the Bunny," for sturdiness while the content is updated for the modern kiddos. I adored the turtles and the seals! While I did not add this to my personal library, I would consider it as a gift for others.

[Barbara Mahoney]

If you have a child who likes the book “Pat the Bunny” they will like this book. The same bunny from the original story takes a trip to the zoo to visit the animals. This is a medium size book with thick sturdy pages. It contains a variety of textures that a young child will enjoy feeling like a bird’s feathers, a lion’s fur, etc.

This well made book would make a nice gift for a young child.

[Alicia]

Follow the Bunny as they travel through the zoo and pat the various animals. Readers will enjoy the range of textures and animals provided, but items such as feathers and sticky frog tongues won't stay present for long.

For: readers wanting a book with textures/animals.

Possible red flags: book may get easily destroyed through basic use.

[Satangan]

My baby nephew, on the verge of 2 likes this touch (pat) feel book that has animals. I read it sometimes but he mostly likes the touch/pat feel parts and naming animals. Though besides that not much attention to the book, as he’s learning. But talks a lot more since it’s very easy to read this book together.

[Haeley]

The simple text is perfect when the main goal when using this book with little readers is the touch and feel aspect. All those textures were so perfect and so varied!! Definitely need more like this in other stories!

[Rimma Zlobinsky]

Avery was only interested in a few animals and tried to get through it very fast.

[Erin Reilly-Sanders]

This has lots of fun textures to tough, as one would expect. The bird's feather even seems to be hanging in there, although I wonder if the library has reattached it. The story is simple, rhyming and appropriate. I found the art to be rather uninteresting; nothing- the lines, colors, shapes, textures, etc- seems to be particularly expressive except the original wobbly bunny .

[Jessica Thurlow]

We first read this book when our baby was nearly 2 months old. She loved it then and she loves it now at nearly 10 months old. And now she is old enough to interact with us while we read it. She had a great time comparing soft and bumpy, smooth and wrinkly. And who can forget the sticky frog's tongue.

[Athena]

A great balance of words per page/picture, and also some of the bestest touch-n-feels around. I would go for a five star even, if it weren't for that pesky romanticized version of "Cagelandia" (as I like to call it).

[Jen]

Is it wrong that I don't really like these?

[Jennifer]

This was a great, tactile book! I like how the frog's tongue was actually sticky!

[Shauna Ludlow Smith]

Love the tactile part plus the cute story. My grandson will love it!

[Robin]

Nice addition to the Pat the Bunny series. Lots of good textures for babies to explore. One page features a feather that can be easily ripped apart.

[Lynn Plourde]

Fun textures in this touch-and-feel zoo book.

[Yu]

my son like the bird, the seal's whiskers and the lion!