In this simple story, a boy sneaks into the zoo before it opens for the day (“while you stood here waiting, with nothing to do.”) and, in Seuss-like rhyme, leads the zookeeper on a wild chase. In sequential order ten cages are opened, releasing a menagerie of very active animals. Finally fed up with the chase, the zookeeper demands that all of the animals return to their cages. Order is returned just in time for the zoo to open. Text is provided in both English and Spanish and the story is suitable for a read-aloud to pre-readers or for independent reading by second and third grade students. The book was the winner of the second Cheerios New Author Contest, so in addition to having her book published this spring, millions of copies in a mini-version is available free inside boxes of Cheerios. Giving books away? What a zany idea!
