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.
A Junior Library Guild Selection.
Backmatter includes a short biography of Helen Martini and a selected bibliography.
Gorgeously patterned illustrations by Julie Downing detail the in-home nursery and a warm pallet creates a cozy pairing with Candace Fleming\'s lovely language.
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.
Helen becomes the First female Zookeeper at the Bronx zoo, the keeper of the nursery.
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 named him MacArthur, and fed him milk from a bottle and cooed him to sleep in a crib.
Just do for him what you would do with a human baby, Fred suggested...and she did.
The cub\'s mother lost the instinct to care for him.
When Bronx Zoo-keeper Fred brought home a lion cub, Helen Martini instantly embraced it.
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
