On the Loose in Boston: A Find-The-Animals Book

by Sage Stossel

Overview

With simple rhymes and colorful, highly detailed painting, the prize-winning Atlantic Online cartoonist creates a Where's Waldo?-type hit, setting animals free from Franklin Park Zoo and challenging children to find them in settings from Faneuil Hall to Fenway Park. In the city of Boston, / in fair Franklin Park, / sits a snug little zoo / that closes at dark. One morning the keeper / discovered a note. / We've gone for a walk/ the animals wrote. 'Oh, dear, said the keeper, /what am I to do? / My critters have left me / alone at the zoo. Children will have a ball helping the keeper find a rhinoceros in the North End, a koala bear in Chinatown, and a penguin on Boston Common. Over 100 animals are hiding cleverly in beloved Beantown settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933212920
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/01/2009
Series:	Find the Animals
Pages:	36
Sales rank:	1,085,209
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Sage Stossel, author of On the Loose in Boston, On the Loose in DC, and On the Loose in Philadelphia, is an Atlantic contributing editor and a cartoonist for the Boston Globe, the Atlantic.com, the Provincetown Banner (for which she received a New England Press Association Award), and elsewhere. Her cartoons have been featured by the New York Times, CNN Headline News, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, and other venues. Her graphic novel, Starling, was published in 2013.

Editorial Reviews

In justice to them, the animals did leave a note: "We've gone for a walk." But what is the Franklin Park Zoo keeper to do with scores of giraffes, monkeys, and elephants gallivanting around Boston? He calls for help from thousands of young readers, the same readers who found Waldo countless times and still love doing it again. In this infectiously entertaining number, award-winning cartoonist Sage Stossel populates Bean Town with more than a hundred animal tourists. An interactive book the entire family can enjoy.