ON THE LOOSE IN BOSTON

READING: Sunday, March 14th at 2:00 p.m., at Book Ends, Winchester, MA . Sage Stossel will read from "On the Loose." Activities to follow.

About the Book

With simple rhymes and colorful, highly detailed images, cartoonist Sage Stossel creates a "Where's Waldo?"-style hit, setting animals free from Franklin Park Zoo and challenging children to find them in settings from Faneuil Hall, to the Esplanade, to Fenway Park. 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.

Review at Boston Mamas.com:
Not only are the illustrations awesome, Stossel engages the reader with challenging searches for the Franklin Park Zoo animals artistically hidden among her drawings, and she entertains us with a rhyming plot that tickles the tongue with wonderful vocabulary. Read more...

Coloring

Try coloring in some of the scenes from On the Loose in Boston. In the book, these pages are in full color, but the versions here are black and white so you can print and color them however you like:--

Fenway | The North End | The Esplanade | The Museum of Fine Arts | Sleeping tiger cub | Franklin Park Zoo entrance | Animals having fun in Boston | More animals (and the zookeeper)

Or, try your hand at animal mazes, a Boston Quiz, a zoo animal wordfind, or a Boston word jumble...

Oh, Dear!

A lion, a zebra, a turtle, a white bird, a hippo, a snake,
and a prairie dog decided to take a break from the book and go
get something to eat. Can you find them at the Snack Stop restaurant?...

(Special thanks to Evan and Rebecca Perry for their zebra-tracking)