Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire

Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire

Rating: 4 stars

We've discovered the I Can Read It All By Myself Beginner Books.  (For a complete list, click here, and make sure you click to show all 70 book covers...what a trip down memory lane!)  I am having a great time introducing them to Lorelei and Ben.  They both really enjoy them, and Lorelei is really enjoying being able to read a few words on each page. 

But we are also discovering that not all of the books are awesome.  According to my standard, that is, which includes my children's reactions and opinions.

This book is a funny little rhyme where a lioness-like creature really, really, really wants to live in the zoo, but the zookeeper says no.  He shows off all of his neat tricks to a little boy and girl standing by, who are super impressed and thus inform him he belongs not in the zoo, but in a circus.  (Don't they know that circuses are sad, scary places for animals?!?)

It's funny and silly and catchy and inviting, all good things for little kids who are trying to read.  We're heading to the zoo tomorrow, so I was trying to find a book about zoos.  This one won't exactly prepare the kids for what they'll see at the National Zoo, but...it was a fun read anyway.