Cubs in the Tub The True Story of the Bronx Zoo's First Woman Zookeeper

Candace Fleming, Julie Downing

eBook - 2020

Fred and Helen Martini longed for a baby, and they ended up with dozens of lion and tiger cubs! Snuggle up to this purr-fect read aloud about the Bronx Zoo's first female zoo-keeper.When Bronx Zoo-keeper Fred brought home a lion cub, Helen Martini instantly embraced it. The cub's mother lost the instinct to care for him. "Just do for him what you would do with a human baby," Fred suggested...and she did. Helen named him MacArthur, and fed him milk from a bottle and cooed him to sleep in a crib.Soon enough, MacArthur was not the only cub bathed in the tub! The couple continues to raise lion and tiger cubs as their own, until they are old enough to return them to zoos. Helen becomes the first female zookeeper at the Bronx ...zoo, the keeper of the nursery.This is a terrific non-fiction book to read aloud while snuggling up with your cubs! Filled with adorable baby cats, this is a story about love, dedication, and a new kind of family.Gorgeously patterned...

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Published
Holiday House
Language
English
Main Authors
Candace Fleming, Julie Downing
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB07YK256WW
Release Date8/4/2020
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780823448104
Release Date8/4/2020