Pines and Plains Libraries

To see life out of the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home, in a story with material on the origins of books in the I Can Read series.

"If you ran the zoo, could you outdo young Gerald McGrew? The New Zoo, McGrew Zoo, is unlike any zoo you've ever visited-- unless you've already seen an Obsk, a Chugg, a scraggle-foot Mulligatawny, a Seersucker, a Lunk, an Iota, and a Gherkin"--Page 4 of cover.

"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.

When his older brother talks about dinosaurs during a visit to the zoo, Patrick is afraid, until he discovers they all died millions of years ago.

When the monkey cage at the zoo is moved near the picnic area where children play, the young monkeys start to copy the good manners they see the children using, until their mother corrects them.

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...

Penguins at the zoo have an exciting afternoon when one finds a camera left behind by a visitor.

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.

A day at the zoo introduces the different animals that exist in the world, where they come from, what their natural habitats are like, and whether or not they are endangered.

When he misses his bus to the zoo, Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper who was up late planning a surprise for his friends, gets some unexpected help.