Hullabaloo at the Zoo BIG BOOK

Hullabaloo at the Zoo is a humorous fantasy.  When the animals at the zoo decide to have a nighttime party, their neighbour can’t sleep.  By the time the zookeeper arrives the next morning, the animals are asleep.  The neighbour’s snoring, however, creates a “horrible hullabaloo.” Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and simple narrative.

The story has a beginning, middle end text structure.  All the sentences follow a similar pattern and are largely predictable.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The compound word zookeeper is used.  Interest words include hullabaloo, horrible, fax, bopped, and urgent.

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