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Mother to Tigers - George Ella Lyon, Peter Catalanotto
Mother to Tigers
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You are a Bengal tiger cub, one of three -- Dacca, Rajpur, Raniganj -- abandoned by your mother. You are so cold and thin that someone with kind hands puts you on a heating pad and sits by you for hours, moistening your mouth with milk. When you give a weak cry and look up, there is a human... show more
You are a Bengal tiger cub, one of three -- Dacca, Rajpur, Raniganj -- abandoned by your mother. You are so cold and thin that someone with kind hands puts you on a heating pad and sits by you for hours, moistening your mouth with milk. When you give a weak cry and look up, there is a human face almost crying too. Your new mother is Helen Delaney Martini, who has already raised a lion cub in her New York apartment. Tigers in the bathtub will be no problem for her and her husband, Fred. This remarkable book -- strikingly striped as tigers are, sympathetically spoken as any child could wish -- tells the story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780689842214 (068984221X)
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
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4.0 Mother to Tigers (Junior Library Guild Selection)
2/1/2011 ** This picture book biography tells the story of the first female zookeeper in the history of the Bronx zoo - Helen Martini. Set in the 40s, Helen first cared for a lion cub and three tiger cubs in her small New York apartment. Peter Catalonato's soothing watercolors beautifully capture t...
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