Customer Reviews

The Zoo's Shoes: Learn to Tie Your Shoelaces!

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It's a cute book but not what I wanted at all. This book is simply about a rabbit in a zoo and all the zoo animals asking her for help tying their shoes. There's no cute rhyme explaining how to tie them as you go or anything like that just a separate list of instructions on how to tie shoes bunny ear style. I do like that it has multiple different colored laces on it, I think two different colors for the laces makes it easier to learn with. Unfortunately my kids don't learn by just reading a set of instructions to them, they do better if it's put in a fun way like a rhyme or song and this isn't either of those. I tried googling the bunny ear song to print and use along with the book but apparently Spongebobs shoe tying song is all anyone uses anymore and my children aren't allowed to watch that so I don't see using it. Back to the search of a better book.

It's a little much but my little ward seems to like it. But it is nice and big and fun to look at.

I thought this would be a book with some sort of rhyme about the bunny ear method... or the single loop method... which would help kids learn to tie their shoes. Instead, it's just a book with a bunch of laces with a story that teaches NOTHING. The book I bought came in a gift box, and if you're not careful, you'll miss the shoe tying instructions which are part of the inside of the bottom of the box. I'm very disappointed. Much better to buy a "practice shoe" (like by Melissa and Doug) and just go to Ian's Shoe Tying website.

I was in search of a book to help my son learn to tie his shoes before starting kindergarten. From the description, I was under the impression that this book contained a rhyme to help your child remember the steps. That is not the case. The book goes through all the animals at the zoo and talks about how none of them know how to tie their shoes and need your child's help. Although it does have grommets and laces, there is no funny rhyme or easy to remember song. I was very disappointed in this purchase.

This terrific book is colorful, eye-catching and helps little ones learn because of its fun, repetitive tying exercise. The cute zoo story encourages the reader to help its animals through their shoe tying woes. It will be my new `birthday party gift' to pre-schoolers!

A darling book that my grandson loved! What a fun way to teach a child to tie a shoelace! Great idea!

I bought my daughter this book because her teacher told her class that after winter break she would no longer be helping the kids tie their shoes, My daughter was very upset, even though I reminded her that NONE of her shoes had laces lol
Today we opened up the book and I had her read the book, and then twice she read me the directions included (ironically I had never learned as a child to tie MY shoes with the "bunny" method!) After I did it twice, I read the instructions to her and she accomplished it on her first try! Talk about success :) My only side note here is that the written instructions (the colors red and blue and the sides that they were on did NOT match our "shoe") so I was glad that I read it and then altered the instructions for her to match the two colors that she was working with.
TERRIFIC book ... I am so glad that I stumbled upon it!

this book was well worth it. Bought it after she expressed interest in learning to tie her shoes, but it only took 15 minutes for her to learn it thanks to the book!