Wild About Books

Decided to share "Wild About Books"written by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Marc Brown first since this is the title of my blog :)

This is a lovely story about how the different animals at the zoo became wild about books when Molly the librarian drove her mobile library to the zoo.

Love the rhyme and pictures.

Extracts from the book:
"In a flash, every beast in the zoo was stampeding
To learn all about this new something called reading."
"Forsaking their niches, their nests and their nooks,
They went wild, simply wild, about wonderful books,
Choosing thin books and fat books and Cat in the Hat books
And new books and true books and heaps of how-to books."

Bought this book so that I could share it during a school assembly programme to excite the children about Molly the Mobile Library that was visiting the school. I've managed to arrange with NLB to have the mobile library visit the school.

Look inside the book on Amazon here.

Check out this toddler reading the book on you-tube. So get your child to be wild about books as early as possible.

Related Lesson Plans available on-line:
Scholastic Lesson Plan
Monarch