Dorling Kindersley readers. Level 1 series. Two brothers learn about wild animals by visiting the zoo.

After a young girl tells the zookeepers to send the animals to her house should anything go wrong at the zoo, a series of zoo emergencies results in some unusual houseguests for the girl and her family.

As a curious duckling visits the zoo for the first time, the reader is asked to identify various zoo animals in the illustrations. Includes factual information about the physical characteristics and behavior of each animal in the story. Some pages are die cut.

Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...

Lucy the giraffe, hasn't been able to sleep with all the noise at the zoo. Determined to help her friend, Ellie tries to tone down the ruckus and organize the animals into an orchestra.

Because his loud snores disturb all the other animals at the zoo, Bernard the otter tries to find a solution.

A little girl takes matters into her own hands after her brother is accidentally born in a zoo and her parents repeatedly bring home the wrong baby.

Xander's plan to host a panda party falls through, since he is the only panda at the zoo, but when he extends the invitation to all of the bears, complications ensue. Includes author's note on the wonders of the animal kingdom and the international effort to save pandas from extinction.

Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.