#ReadThis I Love Going to the Bronx Zoo by Michael Shoule @readtogetherbks @BronxZoo
Whom You Know is about the Best of Manhattan. You've got to really be something special for us to go to an outer borough and Joe and Amanda Bastone are our favorites in the Bronx. Or Da Bronx. (Girls from Farmington don't speak like that...) Hot on the heels of the wildly successful:
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author Michael Shoule shows the world he is not a one-trick-pony and goes beyond sports with this new modern classic: I Love Going To the Bronx Zoo. Nates's Notes and Emma's Dilemmas add to the fun on every page. We loved the bears and the flamingoes the best. Spring is here!!! Get the kids off the devices and out to the Bronx Zoo. Great for parents and teachers alike, each page of I Love Going to the Bronx Zoo takes you from one fantastic exhibit to the next. Plus fun animal facts along with animal-related questions to consider add enjoyment to the reading experience. At the end of the book the reader can write about their favorite animal much like the author did when he was an elementary school student in the New York City public schools. Every kid we are aware of loves animals so this book is the perfect read whether you are near the Bronx or just want to put the outing on your list.
For in person readings at elementary schools, street fairs, bookstores and other groups or for additional information please contact the author at mike@readtogetherbooks.com
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I Love Going to the Bronx Zoo
· Softcover
· 36 pages
· ISBN 978-0-9822615-4-5
Brand History – Read Together Books
I still remember sitting on the couch in the den with my maternal grandfather listening to the Mets game on the radio before cable TV came to our neighborhood. He and my grandmother lived just one block away from us. He was originally a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and my paternal grandfather, who died years before I was born, was a New York Giants fan, but both of them became Mets fans once “their” teams deserted New York for the West Coast. As a result, my father was a Mets fan too and thus logically followed that the first-born son would be instilled with the same team loyalty. It is this fandom that I have tried to pass on to both my son and my daughter since pretty much the day they were born. And it is this bond around sports and other shared experiences that motivated me to start Read Together Books.
My first childhood Mets game at Shea Stadium is something I will never forget, and I consider myself very fortunate to have made countless trips to Shea since then with my Dad. Just before they played their last game ever at Shea, I brought Nate to his first Mets game and my Dad joined us as well. It was such a special day for me to be there with both my son and my Dad. There is something about sports that brings families together. It is this love for each other, the love of “our” team, and the bond that is formed rooting for “our” team that makes sports great.
Rewind to just over a year prior to that final trip to Shea. I was in Chestnut Hill for my Boston College reunion. From about three months on, every night my wife insisted that I read a book to our previously mentioned newborn before I put him in his crib. Not to sound like a bad father, but I couldn’t understand why I was wasting time reading a book to a newborn (heck, how was a Neanderthal like me to know their vocabulary forms at such a young age?). Needless to say, I was a bit frustrated with the repetitive task of reading about the same brown bears and pink pigs playing at parties every night. It surely put me to sleep even if Nate was still wide awake.
So, there I was at the BC bookstore looking to buy a BC book for our first child. Fortunately, as it turns out, there were no books that fit that description and so the labor of love that was My Daddy Loves Boston College Football and still is Read Together Books began.
This past fall Read Together Books published My Daddy Loves Clemson Football and our first paperback title I Love Going to the Bronx Zoo. More titles will be released this summer and fall.
