A Zoo In My Shoe
Jason Korsner and Max Low
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As you’ll see on the front cover of this book, Jason Korsner has selected seven different wild animals to place in his trainer – sorry, shoe, or it’ll be a no brainer because the first set of rhymes won’t work.

The structure is similar to that used in I Like to Put Food in My Welly and it’s equally, hilariously silly.

Zoo is the first word and everything starts sensibly with ‘Lots of wild animals live in the zoo. / Before a long trip you should sit on the loo. / My feet are so long, they poke out of my shoe.’ for which Max Low offers three cartoony illustrations – one per sentence.
Turn the page and the daftness takes over and we have, ‘ Lots of wild animals live in the loo. / Before a long trip you should sit on my shoe. / My feet are so long, they poke out of the zoo.’ Opposite this is an equally zany three line rhyme with more of Max Low’s illustrations, which are becoming increasingly surreal.

The other animals featured on the verso pages are in turn, Tiger, Giraffe, Penguins, Sea Lion, Lemur, 

Leopard and Elephant, each of which has a double spread of playful permutations of the original sensible (ish) three rhyming lines.

A splendidly funny read aloud that will quickly have young children in fits of laughter at the assemblage of wordplay and likely wanting to try and invent some of their own; there are plenty more zoo animals to play the language game with.