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STORYTIME @ HOME
Youth Services staff has created special resources to help facilitate a fun storytime experience in your home. We’ve outlined early literacy activities to help keep kids reading, singing, playing, writing, and talking every day.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text reveals the antics of an alphabet full of zoo animals as they enjoy a night of singing, dancing, feasting, and playing musical instruments while their keepers sleep. Includes pronunciation and translation guide to Spanish words that appear throughout the text.
Author
Series
Secret Zoo volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Noah and his friends in the Secret Society join forces with four teens known as the Descenders to try to protect the Secret Zoo hidden below the Clarksville City Zoo from monstrous sasquatches and the evil Shadow Master.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lucy, a pregnant giant anteater from Belize, is blamed for killing the man found dead in her pen, California zookeeper Teddy Bentley races against time to find the real culprit before Lucy is shipped to another zoo, but her investigation is undermined by another murder, a threatened eviction, a father on the lam, and a socialite mother out to destroy her romance with Sheriff Joe Rejas.
50) Bebé caimán
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
A little girl takes matters into her own hands after her brother is accidentally born in a zoo and her parents repeatedly bring home the wrong baby.
51) Batty
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Nighttime animals
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Nighttime animals
Description
Batty's efforts to impress visitors at the zoo fail, but he is determined to be popular like the other animals. First he goes to the penguin pool but the water is cold and he doesn't like fish. Then he tries the gorilla enclosure but he doesn't have any fleas for the gorillas to pick off him. He tries to laze in the sun with the lions but its far too bright for his sensitive eyes. When eventually he returns to his bat cave he finds that everyone else...
53) Poo in the zoo
Author
Series
Poo in the zoo volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bob McGrew, the head keeper at the zoo, loves his job -- except when he has to clean up the poo! One day, the iguana leaves behind something that catches the attention of the entire town -- and a poo museum owner -- and ends up making Bob's messy job a lot easier!
54) Hairy Hezekiah
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A lonely Bactrian camel sets out in search of a friend, but after being threatened, laughed at, and insulted by other animals at the zoo and unknowingly wreaking havoc in the English countryside, he finds a real home and true friend at a safari park.
Author
Series
Bindi wildlife adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Bindi has her birthday party at the zoo, and after one of her guests decides to take home one of the zoo's water dragons, it's up to her, her brother, and a green-winged macaw to find the water dragon before it's too late.
57) The Midnight zoo
Author
Pub. Date
2011, 2010.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A popular author of fiction and nonfiction works for children, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen can often be found in schools sharing her beloved works with children all across the country. With its clever rhymes and cute-creepy storyline, Quackenstein Hatches a Family is the irresistible tale of a very special duck. Quackenstein has no family or friends to play with until he finds an egg. But when it hatches, it's not exactly what Quackenstein was expecting!...
Author
Series
Secret Zoo volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On Halloween night, the scouts, along with their Descender allies, must battle terrifying sasquatches at their own elementary school. Little do they know, the sasquatches are merely the bait to a trap. DeGraff captures three of the Descenders and drags them into a frightening, off-limits sector of The Secret Zoo. Meanwhile, Noah and his friends must protect two of their animal allies from police officers who are convinced that they are dangerous...
60) Tres con Tango
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
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Description
At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
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