TY - BOOK AU - White,Betty TI - Betty & friends: my life at the zoo T2 - Thorndike Press large print nonfiction SN - 1410445259 (hardcover) PY - 2011/// CY - Waterville, Me. PB - Thorndike Press KW - White, Betty, KW - Zoo animals KW - United States KW - Anecdotes KW - Pictorial works KW - Zoos KW - Large type books N1 - Zoo good deeds -- The eyes have it -- Standouts -- Family matters -- Mommies and babies -- Kids will be kids -- Airborne -- Camouflage -- Sleepyheads -- Nose to nose -- My misunderstood friends N2 - Noted television actress, impassioned lifelong animal welfare advocate, and author, Betty White offers intimate and funny stories about her animal friends at the zoo, enhanced by four-color photographs. This book is the passion project she has been working on for more than a decade; a love letter to zoos and to the animals in them, from a woman who admits she likes animals better than humans ("They're unconditionally loving!"). In her inimitable voice, she takes us on a private tour of her favorite animals and her friendships with them, from Gita the elephant, whom she used to take for walks before the zoo opened; to Kelly the massive silverback gorilla, whom she has known since his birth in 1987. From giraffes to lizards to koalas, readers witness the variety of animals through her eyes, and in her own words ER -