Zoom City

by Thacher Hurd

For active toddlers exploring their world, this energetic book bursts with the noisy sounds children love to imitate.Honk! Honk! Beep! Beep! Zoom City zooms with cars—and dogs!— on the go. Active toddlers, busy exploring their world, will love this energetic book that’s filled with the noisy sounds they love to imitate. Honk! Honk! Beep! Beep! Zoom City zooms with cars—and dogs!— on the go. Active toddlers, busy exploring their world, will love this energetic book that’s filled with the noisy sounds they love to imitate.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

8 pages, Board Book

First published February 28, 1998

About the author

Thacher grew up in a family of children's book artists, and after attending the California College of Arts and Crafts, he began to turn his talent to picture books. He is the award-winning author of Mama Don't Allow, Art Dog, and most recently Moo Cow Kaboom! He has also written two board books, Cat's Pajamas and Zoom City. Thacher and his wife, Olivia, live in Berkeley, California.

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Reviews

[Kaethe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Zoom City - Thacher Hurd, Patricia Hubbell, Jennifer Plecas 2000 July 172000 Aug 312000 Dec 15One of the differences between having one child and more than one is being able to capture moments. with the first or only child there are more pictures, more notes in the baby book, more attention to which books were checked out of the library and read. And capturing moments enables us to rehearse them and keep them in our memories.So, an entry for a library book selected by first child, just over a year old, brings back the memory of the old town library, with the new children's books to the right of the entrance, sort of gaping out of the room to catch the eye of everyone who enters and leaves. They had a restriction on new children's books: a limit of 5 to a card. Which is why the baby had her own library card at six months. She loved to pick our books.There are some board books that never really grabbed me, especially of the Classic flavor. Easter basket, birthday, Halloween, Christmas: any event was worthy of being celebrated with a new kid's book. But man, a lot of those old ones are creepy, or boring, or the rhyme scheme is off. The field has vastly improved with more entries and more competition. This is an old one, and the library no longer keeps a copy. Look at the pictures at Amazon, and you'll notice that much more attention went into drawing the cars than drawing the critters who were driving. Favorite pages: "Red light. Stop." followed by "Green light. Go. Faster"Anyway, it's good to capture how appealing this was, if only so I can buy a copy for someone else's baby (I like to give at least one older book and one current popular book both in the board book format, actually I don't know that I ever kept a child's book gift to a two book minimum.) See also Boynton's complete oeuvre and Go, Dog, Go! and Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb which is burned deeply into my brain from the billion repetitions.Library copy

[Valleri · Rating 1 out of 5]

Full of trite phrases and nonsensical words, this board book was not the most entertaining for a baby.

[Cecile · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too much emphasis on speed; this is a board book. I purchased it for the sound effects; I was disappointed.

[Joel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weird book but toddler thinks it’s fantastic!!

[Skylar Burris · Rating 5 out of 5]

My two-year-old son loves this book. It's very simply, but he'll repeat every word after I read it, and he'll sit paging through it for long periods of time. I'm not sure what the appeal is--but it works!

[Jennie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this up at a grab bag library sale. Expected it to be the least used book in our 1 baby (currently 8 months old) family. But it's far ahead the favorite so far! Almost all of the words are onomatopoeiatic; I think that's why it's such a winner.

[Regan · Rating 5 out of 5]

My dad used to read this to me every night when I was little. I think we gave it to my cousin when I outgrew bedtime stories. For Father's Day this year, my mom bought a copy of this for my dad. He cried.

[Danette · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this board book! The rhymes are fun to read aloud, and the drawings--saturated in color--were dynamic and exciting. I had to buy a second copy because the first got worn out.

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a favorite of all four of my boys who would ask for multiple readings in one sitting. Great book.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bright, colorful, fun. I think this would be very pleasing to a busy youngster.

[Elaine Conway · Rating 2 out of 5]

Busy and overwhelming. Not a big fan!