Pat at the Zoo
“Pat at the Zoo” brings the beloved touch‑and‑feel design into a zoo setting, letting toddlers experience a sensory walk through giraffe fur, elephant hide, seal whiskers, and lion’s mane. Each spread presents a new animal with brief rhyming couplets alongside textures that beg to be touched—making early literacy a tactile adventure. Simple words like “big,” “gray,” “loud,” and “soft” appear repeatedly, reinforcing phonics as children associate words with feelable surfaces.

This board‑book edition is built for heavy use in rental environments: thick board pages resist bending, rounded corners dodge damage, and built‑in tabs help busy hands turn pages easily. The latches and binding are designed to last dozens—even hundreds—of sittings without coming loose, making it ideal for daycare programs and check‑out systems.

Targeted mostly at ages 2 to 4, it engages emergent readers and pre‑readers alike. Its sensory elements encourage exploration while the gentle rhyme helps calm overstimulated toddlers. Perfect for small‑group story circles or independent tactile discovery time, “Pat at the Zoo” invites children to link language and textures in a playful, durable format that keeps up with multiple readers in rental programmes.