Dear Zoo. A Lift the Flap Book :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

2008-02-07
My 18 month old daughter LOVES this book. She says the next animal even before we get to the page. She also makes each animal sound (except for the camel because Mommy and Daddy don't know what sound a camel makes). The flaps are more sturdy then some other flap books she has and thus less likely to get ripped. There's a good reason this book has been a favorite for 25 years.

Fantastic Book

2008-01-15
My 18 month old absolutely loves this book! He will bring it to me first before all the others. He loves lifting all the flaps and finding all the animals. The book also helps him learn all the names of all the different animals at the zoo. Definitely a wonderful purchase and highly recommended.

Love it!

2007-12-21
I bought this for my 3 month old son for Christmas. He is a little young for the flaps, but the book is durable and VERY cute. Great for little ones.

Book

2007-12-11
Perfect!! I love it and I know that my two year old godson will as well.

Very cute, toddler friendly

2007-12-01
I bought this book about a month ago for my 2 1/2 yr old daughter. She is really into animals and loves going to the zoo. The book is very simple but cute. After reading it to my daughter a few times she knows what things describe each animal. She will see a picture of a frog somewhere and say "Frog too jumpy" It is a great book to get young kids into reading. She loves the flaps and the sentances are short so she will "read" it to me at bedtime. All in all its a fav at our house

Another simple, repetitive story for little ones!

2008-06-26
Children like a repetitive structure because it helps them understand what's going on and predict what will happen next. (For that matter, adults like it too! Repetition is a crucial part of traditional storytelling and modern-day speechifying.)

This one is about a child who wrote to the zoo for a pet and, being a zoo, they sent him/her all manner of exotic, but unsuitable animals before finally hitting on a puppy. Each animal is hidden inside a box of some sort, that's where the flaps come in.

It's great fun (at least the first thousand times, then it's only a little fun) to lift the flaps and adlib some animal sounds to describe whatever's hiding. And, as a plus, the flaps on this book are actually fairly sturdy - we haven't had a rip yet, and we've had this book a few years.

Definitely a keeper.

Became a Classic - it's a must for 1-4 yr olds

2008-06-25
My 1 yr old loves it and so does my almost 4 yr old nephew. keeps attn.

Great Book

2008-06-13
My two year old son loves this book. The pages have flaps you lift and then you can see the animals. He loves that. We read this book every night repeatedly before bed.

Very engaging for a 9-month old

2008-06-09
I introduced this book to my 9-month old son, who immediately took to lifting the flaps like a pro. This cooperative reading of the book, makes the required multiple readings entertaining rather than tedious. We've never had a concern about the sturdiness of the flaps, as these are a bit thicker than some other books we've run across us. Although, please note, my son hasn't figured out that ripping pages might be fun and is appropriately gentle with books. He is now 21 months old and still requests this book often. This was also the first book, I saw him browsing by himself, at about 12 months old.

Everyday read!

2008-02-10
I just bought this book for my 22 month old daughter. She LOVES it! We have read this book everyday since I gave it to her. She is also very careful with lift the flaps which could be a problem with some toddlers.