What's new? The zoo! : a zippy history of zoos / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Marcellus Hall.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0545135710 (hbk.)
- 0545135729 (pbk.)
- 9780545135719 (hbk.)
- 9780545135726 (pbk.)
- What is new? The zoo!
- Zippy history of zoos
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 590.73 K94 | Available | 33111007581065 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With kid-friendly facts, stylishly funny pictures, and animals galore, What's New? The Zoo! is history to roar for!
Did you know . . .
The first zoo was established 4,300 years ago in present-day Iraq? Aztec King Montezuma II had such an incredible oollection of animals that it took 600 men and women to care for them? Zoos were crucial in the development of scientific theories of classification and evolution? 50 buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring jazzy style and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals, and the ways animals have changed us in turn.
Includes bibliographical references.
A millennia-long history of animal keeping shares facts about what zookeeping has taught humanity and how individual lives have been profoundly shaped by the wild creatures found in zoos all over the world.