The Zoo

The Zoo by Suzy Lee is a great picture book that uses illustrations as well as some help from text to tell a story. This creative book is a story you definitely would want to go back and read one or two more times to make sure you get the whole story. The first time I read, I only paid attention to the text. There was not much text in the book, so all I found out was that a little girl and her family went to the zoo, and went to various animal exhibits. After going back and reading the story, I concentrated more on the intricate illustrations. I found out from the pictures that while the family is at the zoo, the parents loose their little girl. They look at all the exhibits and cannot find her, nor do they see animals in the exhibits. After paying attention to the little girl's balloon she was holding the whole time, I realized the girl imagines being in a open jungle with all the animals, and that is why the animals are not at their exhibit. At the end, I notices the little girl has fallen asleep on the bench, and was dreaming her imaginative animal scene. Furthermore, I enjoyed reading this book because it reminded me how exciting the zoo is when you are a little kid, but also how you appreciate even more when you visit it as an adult. This message is what I saw in the book, it was a good book to read for the first time, but if you revisit the book, you realize so much more depth to it.