This is such a lovely, lovely book. It's essentially a very simple board book. What elevates it into a lovely book is the beautiful illustrations, the clever flaps and the die cutting which show tantalising hints of the next spread.
We are taken through a trip through the zoo. What I really liked was the text, which is informative and more of a reference book than a story, informing for example, how the penguins use their flippers to fly under water. My favourite spreads are the butterfly house where you open a butterflies wings to reveal a brilliant cobalt blue butterfly, and the gorilla house where you open the mother gorilla's arms to reveal her baby.
The final pages are lovely too, as they show the zoo at night and the flap where the keeper's flashlight illuminates the tiger is just lovely.
Beautifully illustrated by Simona Dimitri, this is a wonderful book to share.
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