Each animal arriving from the zoo as a possible pet fails to suit its prospective owner, until just the right one is found. Movable flaps reveal the pop-up contents of each package.

Noah and his friends in the Secret Society join forces with four teens known as the Descenders to try to protect the Secret Zoo hidden below the Clarksville City Zoo from monstrous sasquatches and the evil Shadow Master.

From Elephant's long nose to Kangaroo's huge feet to Monkey's stick-out ears, everyone is worth celebrating, no matter what they look like.

Willy the Gorilla imitates the other animals at the zoo, but despite pretending he remains always a gorilla.

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

Xander's plan to host a panda party falls through, since he is the only panda at the zoo, but when he extends the invitation to all of the bears, complications ensue. Includes author's note on the wonders of the animal kingdom and the international effortto save pandas from extinction.

The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard...

"Milton Worthy can't wait for his class trip to the city zoo. But little does he know that Noah--part time classroom pet ferret, part time evil mastermind--has escaped and stowed away on his school bus. Good thing that Mrs. Worthy, ace world-saving, member of the super-secret Society of Substitutes, is along for the ride! Will Milton and his super-substitute mom be able to stop the zoo from running completely wild?"-- Page [4] of cover.