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Author Lyon, George Ella, 1949- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyhdbWcwYBVjwPmG983cP

Title Mother to tigers / George Ella Lyon ; illustrations by Peter Catalanotto.

Publication Info. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Bio Martin Lyo 2003    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Bio Martin Lyo 2003 c.2  In Process  ---  Signed by the illustrator.
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Summary Tells the story of how Helen Frances Theresa Delaney Martini cared for baby zoo animals, started the first zoo nursery and became the first woman zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo. 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader 4.0.
Reading Counts! 3.6.
Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.0 0.5 61140.
Reading Counts RC K-2 3.6 1 Quiz: 33131 Guided reading level: M.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Martini, Helen -- Juvenile literature.
Zoo keepers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Picture books for children.
Martini, Helen
Zoo keepers
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Picture books
Biographies
Juvenile works
Biographies.
Picture books.
Children's non-fiction.
Added Author Catalanotto, Peter, illustrator.
ISBN 068984221X (lib. bdg.)
9780689842214 (lib. bdg.)
141313209X
9781413132090