They all look depressed and are hiding or frustrated, hardly a positive endorsement and one which shows how subservient they are within our society. This book is an excellent example of the essential role pictures can play in a story as we can infer so much from them. At first when reading this book, I was saddened by the nature of Hannah and her father's relationship and the impact it was having on her however the ending was a heart-warming surprise where Hannah gets what she really wanted all along, love and attention from her father! until a visit to his grandma's shows him how to overcome his fears with the aid of his imagination - and some tiny worry dolls. The main character and his younger brother, Harry, had a typical brotherly relationship, always rough housing and getting on each other’s nerves but causing the father to step in and give a piece of his mind about the tiffs .

Delight in his dazzling portfolio then open the fold-out pages to see the original pictures and learn about the artists who painted them. The action is driven by the father, who is the only one in this family who thinks a trip to the zoo would be fun.The young narrator paints an amusingly bleak picture of the day's incidents: Dad blames him when he and his brother fight during the slow, traffic-clogged trip to the zoo; Dad and Mum insist on viewing the boring animals first; and it seems that lunch time will never arrive. Anthony Browne creates the oppressive setting and mood in this story through illustrations and dialogue.

This is an example of the well-established female maturity principle at work, in which female characters are the people in a story with extra insight, well-developed empathy. This functions as an outro shot seen frequently in film — big skies and oceans are commonly used to show the main character has achieved a wider view of the story situation.I don't want to spoil the story for you (because even as an adult, it's still a wonderful narrative), but Browne explores Hannah's fellings of loneliness, rejection and disappointment in the first part of the text. In most of the panels the dad does not fit in frame and depicts the dad having hair everywhere and is the only person who finds his jokes as funny.

His mother is depicted more like the caged animals, insignificant and blended into the background to convey the stereotypical power balance within the family. Most zoos in the year 2020 are doing a better job of creating the illusion of nature, and some perhaps genuinely provide a decent life for some of their animals. This is recognized by the protagonist when he dreams of swapping places with the animals in the zoo and he ponders about the reams of animals. From the former Children's Laureate and twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal comes a stunning and perceptive story about worry and anxiety, featuring his much loved chimp, Willy. A boy is telling the story through his perspective by reading the text but I think if you were to look at the pictures, you can see many different perspectives taken place in the book.Zoo is a postmodern picture book written and illustrated by Anthony Browne, first published in 1992. The story depicts zoos in a negative way - exerting the opinions of the author's view on zoos and how the animals are kept during their time there. The family is therefore lost within the zoo, which is not at all like a wilderness but functions more like a labyrinth, in which the family are on this path and must walk around and around until allowing themselves a psychological out. This deceptively simple book introduces an overalls-clad chimp who evokes a spectrum of emotions as he answers the titular question.