One Day at Wood Green Animal Shelter

One Day at Wood Green Animal Shelter by Patricia Casey is geared towards children ages 5 – 8. I really enjoyed this picture book. Patricia wrote it as a journal, in a way, as one of the days she went to the animal shelter. On the first page she writes a letter to the reader saying that one day she just decided to take her camera and pencil to the shelter so she could write this book. This book would be helpful to read to children who have never gone to an animal shelter before, or if they are studying animals, or just like going to the animal shelter and want to read about someone else’s experience. The one thing I really enjoyed about this book is the pictures and how the author set up or designed the pages. The illustrations are like collages. She had taken pictures of the real animals and collages them in there where they go in the cartoon-like pictures. The different colors she used, I liked. I also really liked how the text is in boxes next to the picture of the animal it is relating to. I think this story would be good to read to kids in a classroom setting or even at home.