Product Description
24 Hours in a Zoo
Author: Lan Cook • Illustrator: Anastasia Thomas
Format: Hardback
Recommended for ages 7+
SLA Information Book Award 2024
Tai is mad about animals and dreams of becoming a zookeeper when he grows up.
Today is his chance to access all areas and explore what goes on behind the scenes at a zoo for the day. In this story you'll discover what it's like to handle a giant snake, how the zoo prepares for the arrival of a new animal and what happens when an animal goes missing. See some cutting-edge science in action, and find out how zoos work to protect endangered species, and what they do with all that dung.
Features:
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Told in lively comic book style
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Written in collaboration with experts at Chester Zoo
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Perfect for school projects
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Discover more books in the 24 hours in... series
Chapters in this book include:
- Waking Up
- What's in the zoo
- Morning meeting
- All about food
- Enrichment
- Breakfast time
- The frog nursery
- How to catch a giant snake
- In the jaguar house
- The rainforest aviary
- All about hand rearing
- Rico's big day
- To the aquarium
- Coral nursery
- To the nocturnal house
- Closing time
- New arrivals
- Home time
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