Dirty Hippo
Follow a hippo in this narrative text as he finds himself in a mess but gets the help of a zookeeper to get back to tip top shape.
Zoozoo Into the Wild features 8 favorite animals in paired fiction, nonfiction, and wordless books. The series is designed to promote literacy-rich conversations about stories that students create based on what they observe and read on each page. Teachers can enrich the lesson of each book by accessing the story synopsis, themes, and activities listed at the end of each title. The series’s informational texts engage students with facts about their favorite animals, and offer teachers talking points (at the end of each book) to deliver more facts, while readers absorb each page's vibrant photograph and informative sentence. The series’s narrative texts enhance reading skills with repetitive sentence structures, varying punctuation marks, and lively illustrations, and includes strategies (at the end of each book) for before, during, and after reading to strengthen print concepts, predictions, retelling, and much more. The series includes 8 informational titles, 8 narrative titles, and 8 wordless titles.