We're Going to the Zoo!

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  • Animals Galore!
    by Patricia MacCarthy
    Text and illustrations provide examples of named groups of animals, including a bed of eels, a pride of lions, a knot of toads, and a pod of whales.

  • Animal Mixups
    by Millicent Selsam
    Simple text discusses how different kinds of animals live in different places and reproduce their own kind.

  • Curious George Visits the Zoo
    by Margaret & H.A. Rey
    Curious George visits the zoo and manages to both cause trouble and make up for it in his inimitable fashion.

  • Good Night, Gorilla
    by Peggy Rathmann
    An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

  • Hanna's Cold Winter
    by Trish Marx
    A child tells how her family and other people in Budapest help save the famous hippopotamuses in their city's zoo from starving one difficult winter during World War II. Based on a true story.

  • Heads
    by Ron & Nancy Goor
    Compares and contrasts the characteristics of the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth of a variety of animals.

  • The Modern Ark
    by Daniel Cohen
    Rare creatures from North and South America, Asia, and Africa, including the cheetah and the giant panda, are bred in captivity in hopes of reintroducing them to their natural habitat in a program called Species Survival Plan.

  • The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Zoo
    by Gertrude Chandler Warner
    The Alden children investigate various mix-ups at a zoo run by their grandfather's friend in an effort to save it not only from pranksters but also from the town council.

  • A Newbery Zoo
    by Newbery authors
    Animals -- enter their magic kingdom. From cuddly puppies to ferocious lions and every beast in between, children are forever drawn to animals and to stories about their adventures.

  • Petey Moroni's Camp Runamok Diary
    by Pat Cummings
    It takes a while for the campers to figure out what is happening to all their food that keeps disappearing.

  • We Got My Brother at the Zoo
    by John & Ann Hassett
    Mary Margaret Morrison has a hard time adjusting to her new baby brother and develops several outlandish stories about where he really came from.

  • When We Went to the Zoo
    by Jan Ormerod
    Touring the zoo, two children pet, ride, and observe a variety of animals.

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