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

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2014

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
40 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780545778787
Related ISBNs:
9780545135719
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc.
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
BY KATHLEEN KRULL
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Children's Books, Nonfiction, Science, Animals
Grade Levels:
Kindergarten, First grade, Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Pre-Kindergarten
Reading Age:
4–10
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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