My School's a Zoo!

In an over-the-top and yet familiar romp, a schoolboy narrator wakes up the day after a field trip to the zoo and becomes convinced that everyone familiar has been replaced with an obnoxious animal. His baby sister, now a furry quadruped, eats his homework; the school nurse, a vampire bat, hangs upside-down in her office. The book goes on with these crazy situations. I LOVED the illustrations in this book and would definitely want a copy of this book in my future class. I think that the bigger picture of this book is just for a child's mind to wander and be able to have a fun read.

The pictures in this book are very colorful and creative. The book has s rhyming scheme and used a nice vocabulary to introduce bigger words to children. it talks about all the animals in the zoo being at a child's school and replacing family members too. It's very out of the ordinary and will be sure to make children laugh. Great read!

This is such a silly, rhyme book that I would recommend to students in kindergarten through third grade. The illustrations are fascinating and filled with humorous details. It tells the story of a little boy who wakes up after a trip to the zoo and, to his surprise, everyone has turned into an animal. This makes for a crazy day! I would use this book to reinforce the concept of rhyme and, for older grades, I would use it as a mentor text for metaphors. Overall, the comical story and engaging illustrations are more than likely going to capture students’ attention and give them a good giggle.

I thought this was such a fun and humorous story! The illustrations were so vibrant and detailed and I caught myself looking at each page for a few extra seconds after reading the page. After a field trip to the zoo, the little boy starts imagining everyone around him as animals from the zoo. I think this is a great book to get readers to use their imagination and I think they will really love and enjoy this book. The rhymes in the book make it a fun and fast read aloud. I love how the author uses a lot of different animals in the book from the zoo to present the teacher, parents, sisters, bus driver, etc. and includes some new animals for kids to ask questions and learn about.

In my opinion, My school's a zoo, is a very fun book for student to read. After a trip to the zoo, the main character starts to see everybody in school as an animal. This book is great to show the imagination of younger students, which is something I feel is a decreasing aspect of children's lives in today's day in age. The illustrations in this book are by David catrow and they are fantastic. It really gives students a feel of teachers and classmates as actual animals.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I liked this book for two reasons. First, the illustrations were vivid, colorful, and looked like a painting. For example, in each animal, you could see the strokes of a paint brush. Each page is also full of color. Second, I liked this book because of the language. The language of the book is very descriptive. I was able to read about each animal and hear the noise they may be making, or imagine what they were doing. For example, "Music class was noisy. A penguin led our band. The ostrich missed his cue, and the monkey smashed his hand." The main idea of this book is to bring imagination to readers. Imagination is a powerful tool. The whole book is about a student imagining everyone at school as show more zoo animals. show less

First, this is a humorous & super silly book. If you have children that want a book to laugh and giggle at, this is the right book. Imagination is a MUST while reading this. The pages are full bleed. The pictures have lots of small details that make the readers stop reading & look at the fine details.

The story is told by the little boy who talks about his strange day at school. The previous day he went on a field trip, but the next day when he went to school, it was different... A LOT DIFFERENT! Every person he ran into, he saw as an animal that resembled at the zoo. The bus driver was big with hairy arms & he saw him as a gorilla. In the computer lab, he saw mice (computer mouse) and broken computers because of the bugs (computer-bug). show more The librarian was an owl since owls have the stereotype of being smart and wise. Also, all of the books had worms in them (book-worms); and so on.
Everything went back to normal after he got off the bus and saw his little sister.

Side note:
This book has a rhyme scheme of (A,B,C,B) show less