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‘An animal-tastic book full of funny animals and a boy with a silly granny’

AdaGothGirlTue 21 Jun 2016 16.00 CESTLast modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 11.57 CESTShare An animal-tastic book full of funny animals and a boy with a silly granny.

It is Vince’s birthday and after visiting his gran, who gives him a big orange jumper, he goes to see his dad who works at the zoo. Vince normally finds the zoo boring, but today’s visit to

the penguin reveals another birthday surprise.

I like Zoo Boy because it is really funny and made me laugh lots. I laughed when Vince’s Gran gave him fish fingers for dinner, but forgot to cook them. She’s my favourite character, she’s

silly and forgetful.

I really liked the song at the end of the book so I made a tune up for it (and sang it to my Mummy).

I think my school friends would like to read this book, because it is funny like Roald Dahl. I think 7 and 8 year olds might like it too. I give it 5 out of 5 because it’s funny and I just

wanted to keep reading it.

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