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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo. On board pages.

Good Night, Gorilla

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#hardcover #childrens #childrensfiction #picturebook #zoo #art #tour #classproject

North Carolina

A Tour of the Zoo

#nonfiction #biography #autobiography #family #movie #truestory #zoo 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals that Changed Their Lives Forever

We Bought a Zoo

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Life in the Garden of Captives

Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco.

Zoo Story crackles with issues of global urgency: the shadow of extinction, humanity's role in the destruction or survival of other species. More than anything else, though, it's a dramatic and moving true story of seduction and betrayal, exile and loss, and the limits of freedom on an overcrowded planet-all framed inside one zoo reinventing itself for the twenty-first century.

Thomas French, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, chronicles the action with vivid power: Wild elephants soaring above the Atlantic on their way to captivity. Predators circling each other in a lethal mating dance. Primates plotting the overthrow of their king. The sweeping narrative takes the reader from the African savannah to the forests of Panama and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison. All of it comes to life in the book's four-legged characters. Even animal lovers will be startled by the emotional charge of these creatures' histories, which read as though they were co-written by Dickens and Darwin.

Zoo Story shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire to both exalt and control nature.

Zoo Story

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#hardcover #crimefiction #thriller #wildlife #zoo #trafficking 

North Dakota

﻿When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking syndicate from the inside. Meanwhile, in Florida, insurance investigator Randall Knight is called to a private roadside zoo, where a new tiger cub of suspect lineage brought a virus that wiped out all the zoo's tigers. The disease is just one species jump away from erupting into a deadly global human pandemic. What starts as a simple insurance claim leads Knight to discover a shocking new evolution in the business of illicit animal trafficking. Both men's journeys take them from the darkest corners of Southeast Asia to the VIP gambling rooms of Macau, where they must stay alive long enough to stop a vicious international triad from ending wildlife as we know it.

Animals is set in the world of global animal trafficking and follows converging story lines into a dark maze of corruption and organized crime, and through the journeys of the main characters, the novel explores the factors driving the exploitation and ruin of the natural world.

Though the story is fiction, the characters, locations, and plot points are almost entirely rooted in fact. They are the product of hundreds of conversations with everyone from Jane Goodall to the CIA, to Damien Mander (an ex-mercenary turned animal activist). To experience the issue firsthand, Will Staples took a month-long research trip spanning three continents and seven countries. The journey was a profoundly transformative, life-altering experience.

The author's goal with this novel is to expose this issue to as many people as possible. To that end, all his income from this book will be donated to nonprofit organizations dedicated to protecting wildlife.

Animals

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#hardcover #children #fiction #Zookeeper #Zoo #Animals #BedtimeStories #Monkeys #PictureBook￼ some residue on back over from a label. Otherwise excellent t condition!  Wonderful bedtime story with nice slick pages and few words.  

Kentucky

Good Night Gorilla

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.

Zoobreak

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Texas

A must have classic for all baby bedtimes and gifting opportunities.

Good night, Gorilla. . .
Good night, Elephant. . .

It's bedtime at the zoo, and all the animals are going to sleep. Or are they? Who's that short, furry guy with the keys in his hand and the mischievous grin?

Sneak along behind the zookeeper's back and see who gets the last laugh in this riotous good-night romp. 

The new generous trim size of every toddler's favorite book is even easier to share. With a warm, funny author's note highlighting how much this book has meant to kids and families since it was first published and some clever new details hidden in the illustrations, Good Night, Gorilla is the perfect gift for new babies as well as fans young and old.

Look for Peggy Rathmann's other lively favorites 10 Minutes Till Bedtime and The Day the Babies Crawled Away.

My School's a Zoo

#paperback #coldwar #zoo #nonfiction #truestory 

Indiana

An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. “The liveliness of Mohnhaupt’s storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush, socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned... and then rarely completed. Berlin’s two zoos in East and West quickly became symbols of the divided city’s two halves. So no one was terribly surprised when the head zookeepers on either side started an animal arms race—rather than stockpiling nuclear warheads, they competed to have the most pandas and hippos. Soon, state funds were being diverted toward giving these new animals lavish welcomes worthy of visiting dignitaries. West German presidential candidates were talking about zoo policy on the campaign trail. And eventually politicians on both side of the Wall became convinced that if their zoo proved to be inferior, that would mean their country’s whole ideology was too. A quirky piece of Cold War history unlike anything you’ve heard before, The Zookeepers’ War is an epic tale of desperate rivalries, human follies, and an animal-mad city in which zookeeping became a way of continuing politics by other means.

The Zookeepers' War

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#paperback #fiction #animals #jamespatterson #dystopian #sci-fi #thriller #zoo 

Michigan

A CBS-TV SERIES LAUNCHING JUNE 30, 2015! Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson's best book ever. Total For 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write. World All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. Destruction With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from "One of the best of the best." (TIME)

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Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson's best book ever. Total For 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write. World All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. Destruction With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from "One of the best of the best." (TIME)

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Peek-a-boo zoo lift a flap

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Oh, no! There's trouble at the zoo today. The animals have run away! Gibbons swinging and playing on the jungle gym, zebras camouflaged on the crosswalk, penguins keeping cool in the swimming pool...the animals are everywhere! Help the frantic zookeeper count and find all the zoo runaways in this great animal escape! An educational and entertaining adventure filled with "I Spy with My Little Eye" activities for hours of fun.

Collect the entire I Spy with My Little Eye series from Cottage Door Press!

 * Lively, rhyming, and educational, this fun vehicle book asks "I Spy" questions to help engage kids further into the story for an interactive experience
 * Practice early learning concepts such as counting, colors, and matching in every picture activity. Answer key included in back
 * Engaging questions and new vocabulary words found on every page, designed to help build conversation skills and support language development
 * Designed for all age levels as a nice introduction to look, search, and find books, preschoolers and toddlers will have fun with guided questions by an adult while boys and girls able to read will have fun guiding themselves through the activities
 * At-home or on-the-go read is ideal for road trips, airplane rides, rainy days, and more!

Animal Escape (I Spy with My Little Eye)

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Great condition for its age 😉 1963! #hardcover #kids #classic #vintage #childrens #animals #fiction #birds #zoo

The Baby BeeBee Bird

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Life of Pi

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#paperback #zoo #knitting #anniesknitting

Basic body shapes and mix-and-match extremities create the variety of miniature creatures in this amigurumi how-to guide for intermediate knitters. The small, handmade projects are easy to personalize, and all of the designs use the same soft worsted-weight yarn. Featured zoo animals include an elephant, a kangaroo with baby, a koala with baby, a lion, a monkey, a panda, a polar bear, and a zebra, each approximately 11 inches tall. Every animal’s wardrobe can be completed with the clothing and accessory designs that offer sweaters, scarves, hats, purses, ponchos, and more.

Zoo Animal Friends

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#science #loyalty #secrets#Zoo #Girls #elephants #juvenile 

We Bought a Zoo meets Jurassic Park in a gripping story featuring the evergreen appeal of human-animal friendships and set in an elephant sanctuary, about a thirteen-year-old girl, a cast of elephants, and a surprising new arrival--a woolly mammoth.



Sam was born and raised in an elephant sanctuary. When a beloved elephant dies giving birth, Sam develops a connection with baby Woolly--who isn't actually an elephant but was cloned from woolly mammoth DNA. And the billionaire genius behind the cloning experiment will stop at nothing to protect his investment. Smart, determined, and loving, Sam stands up to this powerful adversary to protect the sanctuary and her herd. In the best tradition of child-animal friendship stories, Elephant Secret explores the strong and complex bond between Sam and her elephants while offering a fascinating, authentic glimpse into elephant--and human--behavior.

Elephant Secret

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#hardcover #scifi #thriller #horror #mystery #zoo #JamesPatterson

Puerto Rico

As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, a young biologist and an ecologist warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans to hide in this new novel from the authors of I, Michael Bennett. 800,000 first printing.

#hardcover #animals #zoo #children  #fiction 

Pennsylvania

Pssst!

#hardcover #zoo #vintage #weeklyreader #animals

New At The Zoo

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A War Story

In 1939 Poland, Antonina abi ski (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan abi ski (Johan Heldenbergh), have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are and forced to report to the Reich s newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck (Daniel Bruhl). To fight back on their own terms, the abi skis covertly begin working with the Resistance and put into action plans to save lives out of what has become the Warsaw Ghetto, with Antonina putting herself and even her children at great risk. The Washington Post praised the book as being simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful, while Jonathan Safran Foer wrote, The Zookeeper's Wife will touch every nerve you have. A Focus Features release, it is directed by Niki Caro, written by Angela Workman. "

The Zookeeper's Wife

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#hardcover #childrens #children #educational #astronomer #space #stars #zoo #animals 

Nebraska

A Book of Animal Constellations

Large, vibrant paintings and shimmering foil stars make a brilliant connection between age-old stargazing tales and the constellations. Full-color illustrations with silver foil highlights.

Peggy Rathmann

Good Night, Gorilla

Doris Lynch

A Tour of the Zoo

Benjamin Mee

We Bought a Zoo

Thomas French

Zoo Story

Will Staples

Animals

Peggy Rathmann

Good Night Gorilla

Gordon Korman

Zoobreak

Peggy Rathmann

Good Night, Gorilla

Stu Smith

My School's a Zoo

J. W. Mohnhaupt; Shelley Frisch (Translator)

The Zookeepers' War

James Patterson; Michael Ledwidge

Zoo

James Patterson; Michael Ledwidge

Zoo

Bendon

Peek-a-boo zoo lift a flap

Cottage Door Press (Editor); Steve Smallman; Nicola Slater (Illustrator)

Animal Escape (I Spy with My Little Eye)

Diane Redfield Massie

The Baby BeeBee Bird

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Kara Gott Warner (Editor); Michele Wilcox

Zoo Animal Friends

Benjamin Mee

We Bought a Zoo

Eric Walters

Elephant Secret

James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Zoo

Adam Rex

Pssst!

Peter Lippman

New At The Zoo

Diane Ackerman

The Zookeeper's Wife

Jacqueline Mitton

Zoo in the Sky