This is a cute story about a zoo train riding around various environments to introduce children to different animals. The rhyming worked, which is a big deal for me with children's books - if you're going to rhyme, you need the cadence.

I thought this book was cute. The pictures were colorful and held my 2 year old's interest. I thought the story was just OK but my daughter didn't care; she loved it- animals and trains!! I was given a preview copy of this book from Netgalley.

Wild Zoo Train by Carmela LaVigna Coyle and Illustrated by Steve Gray is slapstick silly which was a little too much for me as an adult. However, my grandchildren loved it. I liked the, rhyming and repetition, along with the different habitat that the zoo train visited. The younger ones loved the sounds words, such as “clickety-clack” and “Chooooooooo”.

My grandchildren, ages3, 5 and 7, loved the illustrations especially the comical interpretation of the animals. This is a book that the kids enjoyed the first time as we read through it but then revisited, giving each page a closer look. For me it is a 4 Star book but the children overwhelming voted it a 5 Star book. Their vote carried the day especially since it is a book for children.

Once the Wild Zoo Train loads up its riders, it pulls out of the station with some choos and some dings and a clickety-clack and a toot-toot and it embarks on an off-the-zoo-map adventure. The train ventures through a canyon to a jungle to a savanna to the Antarctic and beyond!

Filled with train sounds and animals, The Wild Zoo Train will be a hit with toddlers and preschool age kids!

This is a cute book that would make a great introduction to animals and their habitats. The illustration style is fun and exaggerated. With repetitive, rhythmic text Wild Zoo Train is a great read-aloud and the end has a surprise in store that is sure to get a reaction from young readers.
I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Wild Zoo Train by Carmela LaVigna Coyle & Illustrated by Steve Gray a charming is a fun book filed with trains and animals. It is full of great rhyming, repetition and vocabulary words. The strong illustration will have kids flipping the pages and wanting to read it again. 

It is so very colorful, crazy train conductor, the kids see all kinds of animal that you would find in a zoo. It could also be easily use as a search and find. The book is all about children visiting the zoo and hoping on a train to see different parts of the zoo and the conductor making sure they have what ever they need to do that. Just a great all around book for memorize and practing words. 

I received this ARC from Rowman & Littlefield and Muddy Boots via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

There is a lot of information packed into this book. It manages to do that in a fun way that makes it easy to remember. The illustrations fit the fun feeling of the book.

Very busy little train! My Kindle doesn't do it justice, but I think young kids will wish this train was real! Heck I wish it was real! Illustrations were busy and fun to look at!

A cute, colorful illustrated book about a train traveling around seeing different animals. Great rhyming and variety of animals. Perfect for the little ones.

Trains and animals are a favourite among kids and this book has it all! Eye catching illustrations, great rhyming, repetitive sound words, all the ingredients that make up a great children's book. It even teaches you a bit about animals found in different habitats. I have a son with autism who is obsessed with trains. I read his this book and and loved it so much, he hasnt stopped looking at it.

Very repetitive (which kids love but it makes me a little crazy). Good teaching of different animal names and where they are in the world. The ending was cute, but my 6 yo was stuck on a plot gap ...why you would go to a zoo to get on a train to go there?! The artwork is nice. The repetitive part of the story makes this one not a good candidate for a wind-down bedtime story, as my boys kept repeating the train noises more and more.

The way illustrations and writing were intertwined with rather small animals my 2 yr old's attention wasn't captured ?

This train will take you on the journey of your lives. It is no ordinary zoo train! This train will take you all over the world and to the moon and back! Wild Zoo Train is a fun and adventurous romp through several different biomes all across the world, from the jungle to the Antarctic and highlighting animals from each.

This is perfect for beginner readers with it's repetitive phrases, rhymes, and onomatopoeia. The full color spreads and fun illustrations will keep your little ones entranced and entertained!

My little one adored all the animals and the wonderful train sounds!

What a delightfully, fun, crazy and engaging picture book, this is sure to become a favourite of many many children and i can see this becoming a favourite of mine to read at story time sessions.

The illustrations are perfectly done for this book, their a little out there with all the animals and people having crazy two sized eyes and a good balance between bold and more subtle colours throughout.

The pages that have Choo-Choo-Choo on them are going to make for fun pages to read with your child or group. There will be children shouting those words out on the tops of their lungs. I see a whole lot of fun with and in this book.

The book is sure to be a big hit with those that like train books, and the occasional odd looking animal. The repetition of words makes it a good book for early readers to read and will become familiar to them more easily.

I highly recommend this book.

My son absolutely loves this book, sometimes if we're out shopping we'll pretend we're in a jungle and looking for animals so he really connected to it. His pushchair is now the zoo train. It's a great addition to his kindle library and we read it over and over without ever getting bored of it. A firm favourite

I loved this book! It is so very colorful, crazy train conductor, the kids see all kinds of animal that you would find in a zoo. It could also be easily use as a search and find.. Names of the animals and a small child could point out what that animal is on the page. The book is all about children visiting the zoo and hoping on a train to see different parts of the zoo and the conductor making sure they have what ever they need to do that .. one is water, sun glasses, one is a rain poncho etc. Just a great all around book for memorize and practing words.

This book was a goofy look at the different animals that live in the different habitats of the world. I wanted to like it more than I did. The illustrations were a little too cartoonish for me and the text was so-so. The concept of a magic train that transports the kids across the globe, and eventually to the moon, is a cute one but it could have been executed better.

All aboard, little train lovers! Adventure awaits on the Wild Zoo Train! This book is a cute and colorful story that children will really enjoy. It is a trip for the imagination as passengers start out for a fun train ride at the City Zoo and end up in the jungle, the savanna, and even Antarctica! As they pass through different areas, they encounter the different types of animals that live in different environments. More and more people want to climb aboard and experience the fun for themselves. And for a special surprise at the end of the book, the train begins its journey to an unexpected place that hopefully readers will experience in a later book!

Preschoolers, toddlers, and even some younger primary age children will love this book. The illustrations are colorful, humorous, and eye-catching. This book would be an excellent read-aloud book for the classroom or at home. I really enjoyed the pages that talked about the different kinds of animals you would find in different parts of the world. The rhyming on these pages was a nice touch. Children will enjoy the sound effects they hear as this book is read aloud and they will want to read it over and over again. Wild Zoo Train is the perfect mix of educational fun.

Cute book for young readers. Depending on your audience, it might be too young for a school library.

The next time I go to the zoo, I am going to be looking for the Wild zoo train. It's a ride I want! It's amazing all the different places and animals you'll see. It's a delightful picture book that is delightfully written. I enjoyed the rhythms of the telling in this story. The illustrations are fantastic!

I recommend this book for anyone of any age as it made me smile and laugh with joy. I used to do story hour at the public library and know that this would be the perfect book to read and show! All kids, regardless of age would enjoy this book!