After the elephant comes a giraffe ( “press the giraffe button to hear the giraffe munching”) who was “too tall”. The story goes through seven animals in turn. It stands proud throughout the read as the pages are turned, and lies flush with the padded cover when the book is closed. The ladder of buttons is set into a raised platform down the right hand side of the book. A simple instruction to press the button is underneath the main text each time. The sounds are operated by a series of 8 colour-coded buttons, each with a picture of the appropriate animal. It is a “noisy” book! And I can assure you (because I’ve done this myself) that if you accidentally sit on it, you will find that it might trumpet at you, or chatter like a monkey, or even (and this is a bit scary if you’re not expecting it!) even hiss like a snake! Lift the flap, and we see … an elephant! And the words:īut this book has a delightful extra feature. They sent me an …”Īnd just as in the original book, the opposite page shows a mysterious “something”, hidden in a crate. This review is for Dear Zoo: Noisy Book, which I think is the best of all the many versions and formats. It is his most famous work, and thirty-five years later, it is still tremendously popular among the under fives in Great Britain, and has been translated into more than a dozen different languages. And I think it grows.“Dear Zoo” was written as a lift-the-flap board book in 1982, by the Scottish author, Rod Campbell.

“Really, it’s like planting a seed in children’s minds…I think, if you come to the idea of conservation when you’re young, it stays with you. Look After Us is the perfect first book to start talking to very young children about wildlife conservation and how important it is for us all to look after the natural world, from tigers and orangutans to elephants and camels. This book features simple, repeating text on each page to encourage little ones to join in with reading the story, and bright colorful artwork.

With a special fold-out ending that shows the difference conservation efforts have made to whales, Look After Us has a positive message about the importance of looking after our world and the animals that live in it. A first board book about endangered animals by Rod Campbell, creator of the bestselling preschool classic Dear Zoo: lift the flaps to meet elephants, tigers, orangutans and more!īabies and toddlers will love lifting the sturdy card flaps to discover five different endangered animals in their natural habitats.

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