"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist). The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...

Uses a field trip to the zoo to introduce various zoo animals, their habitats and how they are recreated, and their care.

An adaptation of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas finds preparations underway before the opening of the zoo, but the animals don't seem to want to cooperate with the zookeepers.

"Do you love to see animals up close and personal? If so, then the zoo is the place for you! From exotic animals to marine life, the zoo is the place to go to learn about animals and their habitats."--

Good night, gorilla: The zookeeper makes his nightly rounds but never suspects that someone is making mischief along the way. Sylvester and the magic pebble: a small donkey finds a wishing stone. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly: What else can this old lady fit in her stomach? Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold....

Special guest Steve Irwin has invited The Wiggles to his very own Australia Zoo for one wiggly safari. The crocs are smiling, the kangaroos are hoppin' and the kookaburras are laughin' along to the beat. Go on a musical wiggly safari with the Crocodile Hunter and The Wiggles.

Disappointed to find most of the animals asleep during a school trip to the zoo, Max and Mia decide to make the best of things before finding themselves locked in the zoo at night, when the animals wake up and begin a dazzling floor show.

When a kookaburra named Matilda feels down, Fiona and the other zoo animals dress up to cheer her up.

Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, has a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks-and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched...

Presents the lyrics to a song from the Broadway musical, "Do Re Mi," in which animals in an overcrowded zoo beg to be let out while accidentally stepping on one anothers trunks, quills, and toes.