Shoo! is an adorable little book about an old woman who doesn't like noise, mess, or ruckus. When a zoo moves in next door, she finds herself with all kinds of animals in her house.

This was a very cute little children's book! I loved the art style and the light rhyming. I think kids will have a wonderful time listening to it or reading it themselves and can see it being used in classrooms to teach rhyming. Mrs. Golightly's character is funny and grumpy, which makes the end even sweeter as she dances with her new zoo friends.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, and Pushkin Press for providing me with a copy for an honest review!

Oh well this was a cute story. It was good, it flowed really well. We as a family loved the rhymes and it added to the story. The illustrations were very comical and explained the plot so it is easy enough for younger ones.

Mrs. Golightly does not like animals, so what do you think happens? A zoo moves in next door! Each day of the week is filled with different animals doing outrageous and noisy things. She finally gets rid of them, but things are quiet...too quiet. What does old Mrs. Golightly do? She joins them in the garden for a dance party!

This cheekily illustrated book is full of sound words and rhyme. Kids will love all the animals and making all the noises that go with them.

Just look at that cover! This is a funny picture book with gorgeous illustration. It's rare that I'm happy with both the story and the artwork. Here, nothing is amiss.

My four-year-old loves animals, and she's crazy about the Zoo. This book was love at first sight.

Thank you NetGalley and Pushkin Press for an Advance Review Copy.

Review to come late August on blog and early September to other places.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I spotted this one on Twitter and I knew I had to have it! Then, surprise, Netgalley turned up to have it and I was accepted to read it! Whoop!

In this one we meet a crabby lady named Mrs Golightly (love her name). She loves her garden. But she doesn't love the animals that pop up in there. Squirrels, NO. Cats? NO! Birds? SHOOO! I can tell you my first impression of the lady wasn't a good one! I mean, I have a garden myself and I would LOVE all the cute animals to come by. Well, OK, maybe not cats. But that is because they try to kill frogs and birds and poo in my garden. But frogs? Birds? Butterflies? YAS! I was curious if I was going to be liking this crabby lady, was she going to have a chance of heart? Or would the zoo ruin it all?

Yes, a zoo. I don't know how regulations and such were thrown overboard, but this lady gets a zoo next to her! I can hear you say that this isn't too bad, right? The animals are in cages, they are not going to be outside, right? Well, nope. These animals have a hand in escaping it seems... or the zoo is very lax in keeping animals in. Because quite soon we see a kangaroo having a wee on her toilet. We see giraffes having a party in the garden. Did I mention the alligator on the radiator? I had quite the laugh at what was going on with the zoo, though I have to say, despite her being crabby? I was feeling sorry for the woman. I mean, I wouldn't mind some animals, but everyday? Not sure if I would be so happy. So I could imagine her reaction when things just got too crazy. I think I would have done the same. I could relate! WOAH!

The ending was just the sweetest. It definitely was unexpected, though maybe not fully, I have read other picture books like this. But I am so happy with the Mrs. Golighty and loved seeing this side of her.

The illustrations were just the absolute best! Lovely style, lovely colours, and the animals just seem to pop out of the pages.

All in all, a laugh-out-loud book about a crabby lady and the zoo animals next door that keep visiting. Recommended!

Adorable illustrations, animals, rhymes, and lots of fun sound words. Mrs. Golightly thinks she hates animals when a zoo moves in next door, but sometimes people can learn to unlearn their hate and befriend others.

What a fun book to talk about character traits and what can make people grumpy!

This book reminds me of “Those Darn Squirrels” and “Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch” and would be good for plot and theme comparisons.

Even with being the grumpiest person ever, a little love and consideration can go a long way to change someone’s perspective and life.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this Arc!

This is a great book about not knowing you like something until it's gone. This is a great little story! I loved reading it.

This was so cute! It was just long enough to be entertaining, but short enough to hold the attention of a younger crowd. The illustrations are beyond beautiful and captured my attention from the beginning. There was whimsy in the story, but also (a change of) heart.

Sometimes we think we want to be left alone, but then its too quiet and lonely. Mrs. Golightly learned this lesson & made some animal friends in the meantime. It was great to read this book. I can't wait to read more from Bower in the future.

Grumpy old lady is <i>very</i> annoyed when a zoo moves in next door and the animals come over.

Is the plot riciculous? Yes.
Is the whole thing so cute I don't care? Also yes.

This one will be perfect for reading out loud as it's one of those that rhyme. You know, she has bats in her hats, an armadillo on her pillow, ants in her pants.

Short, sweet, colourful, funny. What you want in a picture book.
Let's hook readers soon, make them bookish before they know what hit them.

The arc was provided by the publisher.

This is a fun short story for under 7s telling the poetic rhyming tale of Mrs Golightly and “ the invasion” of a collection of zoo animals into her house .It is a simple tale about the recognition of friendship told in rhyming sentences which will be enjoyed by young readers who will want to repeat the words. The illustrations by Francesca Gambatesa are delightful and will appeal to children .A fun read for KS1 or at home .

This picture book, is so much fun. Shoo! Is about a woman who likes everything to be peaceful and quiet, and is dismayed when she learns that a zoo is not only moving in next door, but that the animals escape at night, and like to dance on her front lawn.
And when she goes in side, she finds them in her house. For example, a kangaroo in her loo.

In the end, of course, she gets her peace and quiet and realizes that it is a little too quiet, and when the animals invade her space again she invites them back with welcome arms.

Sweet illustrations, and funny story.

<em>Thanks to Netgalley for making this available for an honest review.,</em>

Awww! This is exactly the kind of book that will put a smile on your face. The rhymes sounded so natural and I loved the beautiful illustrations. What a cute and charming book!

This was adorable!

Shoo! is an illustrated story about a grump who doesn't like animals, but realizes in the end everyone needs a bit of mess in their life.

So cute! The illustrations were great, and the rhyme was fun. I'm sure the kids will love it.

Perfect if you love animals - and if you don't 😂

I was given this book as an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Mrs. Golightly hates animals. She believes them to be “stinky, bothersome creatures.” If she sees one she says “SHOO!” So when a zoo moves in next door, she is very put out. Different animals keep showing up in her house. They won’t leave her alone.

I like this book, because I can see a lot of teaching opportunities and discussion points that you can have with children. For instance you could discuss how to identify emotions. “How does Mrs. Golightly look? How does she feel? When have you felt that way?” Finally, have students describe how Mrs. Golightly feel at the end of the book, how her feelings have changed, and why they think they have changed.

You can also teach students about rhyming words. How to identity rhyming words. Then have students start making up their own rhymes by predict what animals will show up next.

A lovely well written story about a woman who just doesn't like animals. It was an amusing rhyme that not only introduced the animals, but also the days of the week. I would recommend this to under 7s.

Mrs Golightely doesn’t like animals, so it’s unfortunate that a zoo moves in next door and starts disrupting her life. But she soon discovers that she’s sort of lonely when she kicks them all out.

This was super cute. I will likely buy it for my son’s little library when it comes out!

We adored this humourous story and my son enjoyed final outcome and loved the animals. He spent ages absorbed in the absolutely delightful illustrations. He is on the higher end of the target age but is at the age where he can read some of the words himself. The rhyme and repetition are great for beginner readers and younger children who love repeating along with the reader.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

Shoo! is an illustrated children's book full of fun and is sure to get lots of giggles for any child who has it read to them. Mrs Golightly doesn't like animals and when a zoo moves in next door and causes her mayhem she has had enough! She shuts up her house to ensure no more animals can get in, but then something quite extraordinary happens - she begins to miss them!
The illustrations are absolutely fantastic and so humorous and children will join in with the repeating line Mrs Golightly says through the book. This would make a great fun read to share in a classroom or nursery for story time and I absolutely loved it!

Beautifully presented silliness, as a woman's house gets invaded by the critters from the zoo next door. Once she's shooed them away, and made her home a fortress, she gets to miss them a little. The art is just wonderful, and the rumpus you'd get in a school class or library from the repeated mass shouting of her catchphrase will endear this to the young no end, as will the rhyming elements. Proof perhaps that the simple ideas are the better ones, this gets four and a half stars from me.

Mrs. Golightly doesn’t like animals. She is always shooing them away. One day a zoo moves in next door and the animals start coming over to her house. She shops them away and then as time passes she misses them.

This is a really cute book. My son loved the shooing sound and seeing all the different animals. He thought it was so funny.

This is a great book for young kids to be read too and for older kids to read. A fun one for all ages.

I received an electronic ARC from Pushkin Press through NetGalley.
Mrs. Golightly is not a fan of animals. When a zoo moves in next door, she spends her week shooing them out of her life and home. Then, she spends a week alone and discovers it's not as much fun. She joins the fun and dances the night away. The illustrations are detailed and offer readers a look at animals in a wide variety of situations. Elementary level readers will love the text as Bower takes us through the activities each day. They will laugh at the antics and be joining the "Shoo!..." text throughout the story.

4.5 Stars
Shoo! is a little book about a lady who doesn’t like animals. A zoo opens beside her house and makes life difficult for her. She shoos and yells at the animals that come into her house. She even barricades her home and puts up boards to prevent animals from bothering her. But when the animals no longer visit her, she feels lonely and sad. Will the lady change her mind about animals?
I love the illustrations in this one. The colors are soft pastels but still cheerful. The color scheme makes this a lovely bedtime book for little ones. The lady’s house has grayish blue tones to match her mood. The illustrations almost have a middle-grade mystery kind of feel (lucky that mystery is one of my favorite genres).
The story comes in simple sentences that have internal rhymes for animal names. I found it cute and funny to read those lines aloud. There’s repetition to make the rhyming even better and help kids remember the animal’s names.
To sum up, Shoo! is a lovely book about the importance of animals and how life can be more fun when we have friends.
I received an ARC from NetGalley, Pushkin Press, and Pushkin Children's Books and am voluntarily leaving a review.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Pushkin Press for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. This is a children's book. It is delightful. Poor Mrs. Golightly thinks she doesn't like animals. Of course, craziness ensues!! Turns out she adores them all (well maybe not the ants in her pants). This is a fun, colorful, rhyming story. I giggled while reading it. 4 stars

This is a fun story that has a grumpy main character who realizes that maybe she does like those animals after all. It has quirky, gorgeous illustrations and it packs in a lot of humour.

This picture book is ADORABLE. I love the art style, very cute, very unique and well done. Absolutely love how well the lettering works with the illustrations. The story itself is simple yet also cute, I love the rhymes, it's very well thought for kids learning to read. I really recommend it, I have a weakness for picture books, probably because I'm such a kid at heart and I'm an illustrator myself, and I really enjoyed this one.

Mrs. Golightly is a grumpy woman who doesn't like animals. Unfortunately for her, a zoo moves in next door! Then animals keep showing up and she keeps shooing them back to the zoo. When they stop coming by though, she finds herself lonely without the animals.

A very cute story book with rhymes! I liked the illustrations a lot too.

I received my copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great book that my son and I both thoroughly enjoyed. Mrs. Golightly is a hilariously cranky lady who hates animals. Her worst nightmare comes true when a zoo moves in next door. The story unfolds with Mrs. Golightly finding a kangaroo on her loo, a giraffe in her bath and a llama in her pyjamas. In true picture book fashion, Mrs. Golightly begins loosen up a little and appreciate the company of the animals. We have used this in our homeschool as a perfect story for discussing character arc changes. The illustrations are absolutely delightful and perfectly match the sentiment of Mrs. Golightly throughout the whole of the story. The conga at the end was a perfect finish.

This is a cute children's book with gorgeous illustrations. I love animals, so I had to get it when I saw it on NetGalley. It's a fun story with a lovely ending.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of the book.

First of all I loved the art! The cooling as well was great. I loved the rhymes and the story was very cute. It made my toddler read along! Great book!

A fun book with lots of animals. Mrs Golightly learns to love all the animals of the zoo. A good book to teach days of the week with too.

I loved this book! The story, the rhymes, the fabulous and funny illustrations, I loved it all! The illustrations really brought this story to life. 5stars all day long for this hilarious book

Cute book. Read with my 4yo son. He very much enjoyed the pictures and the rhyming. We loved moving around to the words while I was reading to him. Great illustrations!

Thank you to NetGalley, Pushkin Press, and Susie Bower for allowing us to read this ebook early.

I thought my son might be a little old for this at 6 but he absolutely loved it! He laughed the whole way through and made me re-read it several times! It's up there with some of our favourite children's books now!

I can’t wait to read this book with my students. I would love to see what animal they would choose to be in the sorry and what behavior the animal would be doing. So many fun activities to do with this book.

In my opinion, there are 4 types of children's literature: Informative (the kind that spews facts), Discursive (stories that can start conversations) Aesthetic ( for the joy of beauty, such as poems or nature narratives), and ENGAGING (books meant to bring joy, fun and overall happiness) Great children's books can do a few of these at the same time.

I thought this was going to be a purely engaging book and was pleasantly surprised with it had a Discursive and Aesthetic component as well. The rhyming element was so cute and enchanting. The overall message of opening yourself to new experiences is great for kids!

The illustrations are crisp and colorful and draw the reader in. All the animals look friendly. This was a joy to read!

All we say is accept the animals as they are and live in peace ✔️

I love the little cute story so much! The artwork is fun and the illustrations really colourful. So well done I would say.

The animals are fun. The old lady is grouchy but who can say no to animals eh?!

Thank you, Pushkin Press, for the advance reading copy.

I loved this picture book! I read it with my 4yr old and he loved shouting "go back to the zoo!!" Will definitely be stocking this one when it comes out in Sept.

An enthusiastic endorsement from my kid!

Mrs. Golightly loves her garden, but doesn't like animals. At first, this is just a problem because of the expected birds, squirrels, and other small creatures. But then a zoo moves in next door, and Mrs. Golightly's yard becomes the best place to party. But, after several nights of chasing off her unwanted guests, she comes around for a charming ending.

My kid has asked for a repeat of this one by its easily-remembered name, which basically always guarantee a 5-star review from me. I may read a lot of picture book, but he's the target audience, and the audience is charmed by these mischevious animals and the frantic gardener. He loves the sort of call-and-response allowed by the repeated "shoos." The book also has some witty rhymes, with just a little bit of rudeness (a roo on the loo and ants in the pants) to make it all the better.

Most pages are full-spread artwork with backgrounds, with occasional pages devoted to multiple images to show action sequences (think comic book, minus the borders). Gambatesa does a great job conveying emotion. Ever seen an annoyed alligator or embarrassed kangaroo? Here!

A charming pick for any animal lover...or hater?

What a fun book! ‘Shoo!’ Is the perfect children’s book, a fun story with great illustrations and silly onomatopoeia that adds so much character. I can just hear my kids at bedtime laughing and making the the sounds along with me.

This delightful picture book had me laughing out loud. Fun story with great illustrations. Thanks to author, illustrator, publisher and NetGalley for a preview.

This was such a fun read about Mrs Golightly, a woman who hates animals and lives next door to a zoo. The animals keep breaking in and annoying her, but when she finally gets them to leave she realizes that she misses them. I thought the middle became a bit repetitive. Young readers might enjoy that part, but I think the adults reading the book to them might become a bit tired of it. That section just felt slightly too long. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this. The illustrations were adorable.

Mrs. Golightly absolutely does NOT like animals, so when a zoo opens right next door she is prepared to not like it at all. When the animals start showing up day after day, Mrs. Golightly does everything she can to shoo them away only to find that being alone isn't quite as fun as it used to be.

A whimsical story with fun illustrations, and clever alliterations, Shoo! by Susie Bower is a blast to read aloud and will entertain young children of all ages.

Thank you to Netgalley and Pushkin press for the opportunity to read an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you so much to Pushkin Press and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

Mrs. Golightly doesn’t like any animals at all and is always shooing them away, then suddenly a Zoo opens up next door and all the animals invade her house, she wants them out for good.

Adorable, Repetitive, Humorous and Utterly Fun.

Mrs Golightly really didn’t like or care for literally any of the animals and told them over and over again to shoo she didn’t like them. The animals continue to get everywhere in her house, but when they stay out things change.

I really liked the rhyming and the repeating of the lines, it’s a perfect book for young readers as they can read it easily, learn the story quickly and can join in. These types of books are always a perfect hit with young children.

The illustrations were really sweet and made the story that much funnier seeing everything on the pages that the animals were doing. I really liked this book a lot and I really highly recommend it if you are looking for a fun, hilarious, wacky, interactive and easy read for your child they will really enjoy this book.

What a super book! Children will enjoy the range of animals who invade the home of Mrs Golightly. The illustrations are a treat to look at and complement the story really well. The rhyming pattern will make this one that children can join in with once they know the story.

I have a feeling this is one children will ask for again and again.

Beautiful illustrations and fun word play!
The little one and I enjoyed the colourful images, all the animals to point out and name, and particularly the rhyming sections - although we have a bit of a copier at the moment so I see some potential problematic moments when she chooses to say ‘shoo shoo I don’t like you!’ to some unsuspecting family member or friend!

I love everything about this book! The story, the illustrations...so cute and fun. The illustrations are perfect and the story is adorable.

A rhyming, funny, read aloud picture book for KS1 pupils to enjoy time and time again. The repetition engages pupils to participate. I love the character and the illustrations which make the humour come alive.

This hilarious picture book tells the story of a woman who lives alone in a house and despises all animals. When a zoo moves in next door, she must shoo all of the animals back to the zoo as they begin invading her house. With comical illustrations and hilarious text (including a kangaroo making bathroom noises on the toilet - sure to get lots of giggles on that page!) children are sure to love this book. The text is fairly large and relatively easy to read with some expressive/bold text for noises and silly words. I can definitely see this book being a transition text between reading aloud to a child and a child feeling ready to begin reading independently. I would recommend this fun book to parents and teachers of children in the age 3-8 range. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book.

Shoo! is a really fun book about a cranky neighbor next to the Zoo, who learns to love her new neighbors. This would be a great read-along book, as many of the words rhyme. I loved the illustrations, they were so silly and fun!!