Mother to Tigers

This remarkable book--strikingly striped as tigers are, sympathetically spoken as any child could wish--is a moving picture-book biography of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery. Full color.

About the author

George Ella Lyon

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: George Ella Lyon
• Assisted by: Peter Catalanotto (Illustration)
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 5 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780689842214
• ISBN: 978-0-689-84221-4
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 288 mm x 222 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Series: Junior Library Guild Selection; Junior Library Guild Selection
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics