Zoom!

A funny story about a little girl who uses a wheelchair, and needs to get a new one. At the huge wheelchair department store, she rejects various models as "too slow", until she test-drives an amazing 28-speed chair with flashy colours and racing stripes. When she takes it home for a day's trial,

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it goes so fast she gets a speeding ticket! But with her super-chair she is able to help her injured brother, and her parents are convinced that she should keep the wheelchair. Or does she want an even faster model?
A delightful story, filled with Munsch's trademark humour at the expense of hapless grown-ups, and Michael Martchenko's hilarious illustrations that add even more crazy fun. This is a good story to help wheelchair users feel good about their vehicles, and to help kids perceive the wheelchair users in a positive, "cool" and fun-loving light. Recommended.

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This was a very fun and lighthearted book. This book is not to educate anyone on children or adults that use wheelchairs, instead it is just a fun, silly book about a girl choosing a new wheelchair. I love how she just wants to constantly go faster and faster and has to have the fastest wheelchair

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available! The text style and illustrations worked well together with the story. Anyone could easily predict what the book is about by analyzing the cover. The word, "Zoom", is the title so we know the book is about speed. This is a great book that is fun for all children, but I think specifically something fun for children that use wheelchairs.

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There are a few reasons why I like this book. First, the illustrations and writing go hand-in-hand. I like how on one page there would be text, while on the other page there would be a beautifully illustrated picture. The text is big and visible to many readers. The writing is understandable, which

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is beneficial to struggling readers. Also, I like the issue that is brought about in this book. The main character is in a wheel chair. Her brother has to get rushed to the hospital, but she is the only one who can get him there fast enough in her wheelchair. She zooms all the way to the hospital with him and saves the day. It shows how people in wheelchairs can be as helpful as people not in wheelchairs. This goes in hand with the moral of the story as well, never judge someone based on the way they walk, talk, listen, etc. People need to be open-minded about people who are different from themselves. This book portrays just that.

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This book was inspiring and I loved it. When many people see children in wheelchairs, they see them as weak and often times not smart. This book shows Lauretta, a girl in a wheelchair. She wants to get a new wheelchair, but they are all too slow. When she discovers the fast ones, she just keeps

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wanting one that is faster. The story tells of how Lauretta tries out the 92-speed wheelchair for a day and gets a speeding ticket for going too fast. However, she saves the day when her brother needs to be rushed to the hospital and her wheelchair is the only thing fast enough to get him there on time. This book captures the attention of readers through the goofy story, but underlying the story is a powerful message. The book helps people see that even though someone is in a wheelchair, they can still be useful and they have real wants, including to be "cool." Also, the book ties into real life using the quote about "as all mothers do," worrying about what the family will think. Every child has a mother who is concerned what others will think of her and her family. Therefore, the mothers try to avoid things that will draw attention to them or make them look bad. The children reading the book will definitely connect with this image of the mother in this story.

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Good but was hoping for a little more story.