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Mother to Tigers (A Junior Library Guild Selection) 1st edition
George Ella Lyon
Mother to Tigers (A Junior Library Guild Selection) 1st edition
George Ella Lyon
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.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 1, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780689842214 |
Publishers | Atheneum Books For Young Readers |
Pages | 32 |
Dimensions | 288 × 222 × 10 mm · 421 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Peter Catalanotto |
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