Jo Linsdell

What is your favorite animal to see at the zoo? Author and illustrator Jo Linsdell both describes and pictures a fun day at the zoo that a young lad has with his mum. They get to look at colorful parrots, tall giraffes, screaming monkeys, meat-eating lions and tigers, striped zebras, scary crocodiles with big teeth, hopping kangaroos, bathing hippos, and huge elephants. But how does the boy feel when it’s time to go home? How would you feel?
Children love to visit the zoo. Our two boys certainly did when they were little, and we still do even today. Jo Linsdell is a freelance writer and artist who is originally from the United Kingdom but now lives in Rome, Italy, with her husband and their two young sons. The rhyming text and colorful pictures in Out and About at the Zoo not only make a truly fun story for children to read or have read to them and imagine what it’s like, but will also help to familiarize them with the different kinds of creatures that they will discover at the zoo when they do go.… (mere)