What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos

What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545778786


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With friendly facts, funny pictures, and animals galore, What's New? The Zoo! is history to roar for! Did you know . . . * The first zoo was established forty-three hundred years ago in what is now Iraq?* Aztec King Moctezuma II had such an incredible collection of animals that it took six hundred men and women to care for them?* Children across Great Britain wrote to Queen Victoria when Jumbo the elephant was sold away from the London Zoo?* Fifty buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?* Zoos now play a crucial role in animal conservation?Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring witty insight, jazzy style, and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals -- and the ways animals have changed us in turn.


What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos
Language: en
Pages: 44
Authors: Kathleen Krull
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-24 - Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

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