What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos
By Kathleen Krull.
Description
With friendly facts, funny pictures, and animals galore, WHAT'S NEW? THE ZOO! is history to roar for!Did you know . . .* The first zoo was established forty-three hundred years ago in present-day Iraq?* Aztec King Moctezuma II had such an incredible collection of animals that it took six hundred men and women to care for them?* Zoos were crucial in the development of scientific theories of classification and evolution?* Fifty buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring jazzy style and a globe-trotting eye to...
ISBN(s)
0545135710, 9780545135719