Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.

Travel through the zoo and learn about zoo animals through rhyme. Count up all of the animals you have seen. Teaches the concept of addition through simple exercises and techniques using animals commonly found at the zoo. Includes section "For Creative Minds" with cards and activities.

"Chaos ensues when a child imagines a zoo filled with animals doing the unusual and the unlikely"--

Because his loud snores disturb all the other animals at the zoo, Bernard the otter tries to find a solution.

"Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Zoo Animals offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color photographs, fun facts, trivia, quizzes, and much more. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, a circle, or a triangle, and progresses to a finished colored piece of artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text describes...

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.

Orville is a little penguin who lives in a zoo and dreams of big adventures, like going to the Moon; the other animals are skeptical, but Orville is determined, so he builds a spaceship and sets out all by himself--and discovers that real adventures are best when they are shared with friends.

When a unicorn decides to visit the zoo, a group of children do their best to catch it.