Meinders Community Library Pipestone

"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...

"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.

Depicts in rhyming text how love can be many different things, such as eager as a beaver, steady as a yak, or silly as a seal.

Two brothers learn about wild animals by visiting the zoo.

A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!

When he misses his bus to the zoo, Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper who was up late planning a surprise for his friends, gets some unexpected help.

Introduces the different types of food zoo animals eat, with recipes from zoos around the world, including predator popsicles, digger's delight, and presto pesto sauce.

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

Amos McGee was a zookeeper who always made time for his animal friends, but one day when his sniffles and sneezes prevented him from going to the zoo, he received some unexpected guests, his friends from the zoo.

Es de noche en el zoológico y todos los animales se van a dormir. ¿Quién es ese personaje, bajito y peludo, con una laave en la mano y sonrisa traviesa? Parece que el guardián del zoológico no lo ha visto aún. Per el personaje sospechoso sabe muy bien cuáles serán los próximos pasos del guardián. An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.