zoos

Simple text and photographs describe the responsibilities of various zoo employees.

Children visiting a zoo see bears, lions, tigers, zebras, deer, giraffes, and other zoo animals. Includes information about zoos and their functions.

Simple text and full-color photographs describe using the five senses at the zoo.

In Anchorage, Alaska, two lonely boys make a connection--a brown bear injured just after his mother sends him out on his own, and a human whose father is a new keeper at the Alaska Zoo and whose mother and sister are still in Minnesota.

While working as a reporter during her summer vacation in 1935, Kit uncovers a mystery at the Cincinnati Zoo involving suspected break-ins at the monkey house.

Describes a safari park and the many animals that live in it.

Briefly describes how zoos collect, care for, exhibit, study, and teach about different kinds of animals.

Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.

With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.

Text and photographs examine the issue of zoos and animal rights with detailed historical background.