Wild About Books

This book deserves 5 stars, but I’m giving it 4 because I hate zoos and don’t want them shown in a positive (and unrealistic) light. But otherwise the story and definitely the illustrations deserve 5 stars. The illustrations are fabulous: big, bold, colorful, appealing art style, lush and intricate,......more

I own this book and bought a copy for my sister and my nephew. We both really adore this book and so do our little ones. I revisited it again recently because of Doctor Seuss' birthday and I am a member in a Children's book group here on Goodreads where this month's theme is Librarians. Here is the......more

4.5 - It's hard to go wrong with a childrens book that has animals and books in it. Throw in some fun rhyming sentences and you have a winner in my house! I haven't read the other book some reviewers have mentioned, Born to Read, and although just about everyone says this is better I think I'd like t......more

With a rollicking rhyme - "It started the summer of 2002, / When the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, / by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo." - and exuberantly entertaining illustrations, Wild About Books is one picture-book that just begs to be read aloud! Slowly seduced by the power o......more

I'm giving this five stars on behalf of my daughter, who is 21 months old and has demanded that we read her this book approximately 1000 times in the last two weeks. I shouldn't really complain too much, as my wife ended up having to read it probably 90% of the time, but I still read it many many ti......more