Review Tour + #Giveaway: Zebra's Day Out by Susan Polites and Gabrielle Scully Illustrated by Rex Patrick @GoddessFish

 

Zebra's Day Out

by Susan Polites and Gabrielle Scully Illustrated by Rex Patrick

GENRE: Children's

BLURB:

Zebra is excited when he hears that he will be going out to the cafe with Gabrielle and Gran. But there is a lot that Zebra still has to learn about days out. Is a cafe anything like the circus in the picture book? Will he like the food there? Will there be playing?

Excerpt:

Gran and Gabrielle put on their hats and their sunglasses, and they walked to the café. Gran pushed the stroller, and Zebra rode on the top. He was very happy to be outside in the sunshine.

“I wish I was big and strong so I could push the stroller,” he thought. “I would go much faster than Gran!”

They came to the café and sat down at a table. The waiter came, and they all said what food they wanted. “The food will come soon,” said the waiter and moved on. Zebra was cross. He wanted his food NOW. Rainbow didn’t mind waiting, as long as she could have cuddles with Gabrielle while she waited.

Finally the drinks came. The waiter was carrying the milkshakes and coffee on a tray. There was a plate of muffins too. Zebra thought the waiter looked like the circus juggler in the storybook.

“I want to be a juggler too!” he thought.

My Review:

Gabrielle loves spending time with his Gran. Gabrielle is very excited when Gran comes to visit. Gabrielle and Gran decide to go to the Cafe and then to the park and play. Gabrielle wants to have some of his toys come along too. He wants his friend Zebra to come too but Gran is uncertain about Zebra going as he can be a little rambunctious sometimes but soon gives in after Gabrielle promises her that Zebra will play nice this time.

Today is not much different for Zebra as he does act up somewhat at the cafe but he enjoys the park a lot more and plays real nice. Zebra still has a lot to learn when it comes to manners and how he should act out in public. He also needs to learn a few lessons about being respectful to others too.

All in all, I did enjoy Gran, Gabrielle, and Zebra’s time outside playing at the park and visiting the cafe. Zebra's Day Out is a nice way of teaching children how they should act when they go out and how they should treat people.

Zebra's Day Out is a great story for parents to read to their children and another way for parents to spend time with their children. Zebra's Day Out would make a sweet little bedtime story.  

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Susan Polites is a freelance story-writer, and her ten-year-old granddaughter Gabrielle Scully likes writing stories too. When they spend days together they often share in the adventures of Gabrielle's toy-friends. During the pandemic lockdown in Melbourne they were unable to meet in person, so they decided to work together remotely and write down some of the toy-friends' adventures. Gabrielle's great-grandfather Rex Patrick, an architect and artist, had done a series of illustrations when he first heard about the adventures, and Gabrielle added some of her own drawings to make the story into an early-childhood picture book, and a family project.

PURCHASE LINKS ZEBRA'S DAY OUT

AMAZON.COM ~ AMAZON.CA ~ BOOKSHOP

INDIGO CHAPTERS ~ BARNES & NOBLE ~ BOOK DEPOSITORY

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