My Heart Is Like a Zoo: An Award-Winning Picture Book About Emotions and Animals for Children (Ages 4-8)

Although this is a reading book regarding emotions, every year the Kindergarten class at my two daughters' school uses this book to do Valentine's Day projects for their parents. Each animal in the book represents a particular emotion, and the animal itself is made up of various sizes of hearts. Each animal has its own individual page, and has its own emotion coupled with a rhyming word. For example, Crafty as a Fox, or Cool as a Penguin. Very ingenious and imaginative. The students simply pick an animal out, cut out their hearts, and assemble it according to the picture. When my oldest daughter did her project she was so excited regarding the different animals that were made out of hearts she barely took a breath telling me all about it after school. She told me I had to immediately go to the store and buy the book, because she needed to make all the animals in the book for Grandma. Plus she said the rhyming was fun. So I bought the book. It is an adorable book, and well worth the money if you have young children or even young grandchildren. I would buy this book again, and in fact I am keeping this book. Someday I will be sharing this book with any grandchildren I may have, because it is well worth keeping.

What a great board book! This is a favorite at my house and will probably be my baby shower go-to from now on! The bright, bold colors are eye catching. The artwork is simple in that it is made up almost entirely of hearts, which is lovely to look at and provides a seeking/counting game and arts and crafts inspiration for older children. The rhyme and rhythm make it a joy to read-- seriously, just try it! "Brave as a lion, thoughtful as an owl, peaceful as a portly walrus lounging on a towel." The emotions, character traits, and physical descriptions are great vocab builders, and baby is captivated listening to it and looking at the pages. We can't get enough of this one!

I came across this book by chance, and bought as an impulse purchase. It is absolutely adorable. We don't have any other books by this author, but I've added them to our wish list. I bought the book for our "newly two" thinking he'd enjoy the pictures. (The "almost four" is much more into anything with wheels, so I wasn't expecting him to be too into this.) Well, turns out it's a hit with both. There are some words that weren't as familiar to the kids, but we've explained what they mean, or given synonyms in explanation. What a great and easy way to teach new words. Adorable, and great for ages 18 months - 4 years or so.

Wonderful book!

Arrived in perfect quality. This is my child’s favorite book and I have it memorized.

This book is a favorite! The pictures are simple but adorable, and the language beautifully describes the experiences of a heart (in the soulful sense). Also, the bold colors draw the attention of even an infant, so it's not one that needs to be put on the shelf until the toddler years. Best price found for the book is here on Amazon. I highly recommend this book, and think it makes a great gift as well.

This is such a beautiful book with a positive message. Board books are a bit higher priced due to their durability and I found this to be a steal! Great price! Shipping was fast. It was packaged nicely. My only complaint is that when I first opened the book 2 of the pages were stuck together by some sort of sticky substance causing a small tear when I pried it open. It's hardly noticeable but it was a little disappointing. Not enough for me to return it though. Overall great book, good price!

We bought this as a baby shower gift as we love this book. We have the hardcover version, but we bought the board book version as a gift and it was transfered beautifully. 10/10 recommend for little ones that may be a little rough on paper pages.

A very sweet book for babies that love animals. Since each animal picture is created only using heart shapes, very young readers may not be able to figure out what animal it is

Lo compré a $15 pesos así que no me puedo quejar. Las hojas son de cartón, todos los animales que vienen están hechos con corazones. Hay algunos que no se les entiende bien la forma pero es una forma de despertar nuevas ideas y creatividad a los niños. Mi bebé tiene menos de dos años y si lo ve y me dice los animales.

大小のハートを重ねて動物を描いた絵本。 デザイン的な要素のある絵本です。 カエルなど、少し形に無理のある動物がいるのも事実ですが、全体としてはカラフルにかわいく仕上がっています。 見開きに1-2匹ずつ描かれていて、最後は部屋の中に並ぶぬいぐるみのように集合して描かれて終わります。 私が気になって購入しましたが、動物が気になりだしたお年頃の子供には評判良いです。

My two year loves this right from birth and still wants to read it daily. Lots of learning opportunities too, shapes, counting

great book, bright colours and trying to make the animals is a lot of fun.