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E CARLE

Move like animals in the zoo in this classic book by one of the great children’s book authors of all time! Great for getting children to interact and have fun with a book!

CONCEPT E EHLERT

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

E JARMAN

While the students and teachers of Class Two are absorbed in looking at various zoo animals, a sneaky anaconda gobbles them up, until Molly sees what is happening and saves the day.

CONCEPT E JONES

I see monkeys goofing, bears snoozing, and the color brown crawling all over the zoo. I see brown fur, brown fuzz, and brown feathers. Do you see them too?

E LEE

A little girl explores the zoo while her parents are searching for her.

E MUNARI

Illustrations and brief text introduce more than twenty zoo animals, including a rhinoceros that is always ready to fight and a peacock that struts proudly because he is the peacock.

E NEITZEL

A cumulative verse with rebuses in which a young boy has a wonderful day at the zoo, despite a series of mishaps with the animals.

E NEWMAN

When a careless worker places the wrong sign near a rhinoceros cage, zoo visitors continually mistake the frustrated rhino for a hippopotamus, until a young boy comes along who can help.

E PFISTER

As a curious duckling visits the zoo for the first time, the reader is asked to identify various zoo animals in the illustrations.

E RATHMANN

An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

E REY

Curious George visits the zoo and manages to both cause trouble and make up for it in his inimitable fashion.

E ROSE

Rhyming text describes the preparations made for a boy’s birthday party by his hosts, the animals at the zoo.

E SIERRA

A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

CALDECOTT E STEAD

Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always makes time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day—’Ah-choo!’—he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn’t make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests.

E WILLIS

In this retelling of the classic children’s song, animal passengers go on a bus adventure at the zoo.

E WILSON

The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.

E SAVAGE

In this wordless picture book, follow Walrus on a happy-go-lucky spree through the big city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.