Zookeeper Theodora Bentley travels to Iceland to pick up an orphaned polar bear for a new exhibit. While in Iceland, she must put her investigative skills to use when two American birdwatchers are killed in a picturesque seaside village.

In rhyming text, a young narrator points out the family behaviors of different zoo animals, from crocodiles to lions--including her own mother, a zookeeper.

"Join Fiona and a few of her animal friends as they attend zoo school for the very first time and find out just how fun it is to learn new things"--

"A nonfiction picture book about Claude the albino alligator at the California Academy of Sciences"--

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.

Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room he finds himself a volunteer at Bushytail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first class science report.

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.

"Con Tango son tres es la historia real de una singular pareja de pingüinos barbijo a los que el cuidador del zoo de Central Park, en Nueva York, Rob Gramzay, les dio la oportunidad-depositando un huevo en su nido- de tener una cría tras observar que incubaban infructuosamente una piedra. Así nació Tango, que fue la primera pingüino en tener dos padres. El primer libro infantil de Justin Richardson y Peter Parnellfue un éxito y, desde su publicación...