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.