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

What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : 9780545778787
ISBN-13 : 0545778786
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Book Synopsis What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos by : Kathleen Krull

Download or read book What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos written by Kathleen Krull and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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