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What's New?: The Zoo! : A Zippy History of Zoos
Author:
Krull, Kathleen
Illustrator:
Hall, Marcellus
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Class:
590.73
Age: 3-8
Language: English
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LC: QL76
Grade: P-3
Print Run: 12500
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ISBN-13: 9780545135719
LCCN: 2013021189
Imprint: Arthur A. Levine Books
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
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Pub Date: 06/24/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $17.99
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Library Reinforced
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Physical Description:
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
H 11",
W 9"
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Children and Teen Nonfiction Picks
Brodart's Fresh Reads for Kids TIPS Selections
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
School Library Journal Starred Reviews
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Starred Reviews:
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School Library Journal
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TIPS Subjects:
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Zoology
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Zoos
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Animal Welfare
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / History of Science
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LC Subjects:
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Zoos, History
Zoos, History, Juvenile literature
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SEARS Subjects: |
Zoos, History
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Accelerated Reader Level:
6.4
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Points: 0.5
Lexile Level:
1160
Reading Counts Level:
11
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Points: 2.0
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| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 06/01/2014 |
| An Aztec king with enough animals to require 600 caretakers and the zoo's role in changing our understanding of both evolution and key scientific theories show kids the history of animal keeping and the impact that animals have made on us all. 40pp., Color Ill. |
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| School Library Journal | 05/01/2014 |
| Gr 2-5--A whirlwind, episodic tour of zoos around the world through the ages. Krull takes readers back 4000 years to zoos in Sumeria and ancient China, India, Greece, and Ethiopia, as well as to the menageries of Kublai Khan, Charlemagne, Pope Leo, and Aztec emperor Moctezuma II straight through to modern times. She briefly describes each zoo or collection in a brief paragraph stuffed with fascinating facts that intrigue while they inform. The book ends with modern-day zoos and efforts to save species and reintroduce some of them back into their natural habitats. The author describes the many reasons for building zoos--to study and classify the animal kingdom, connect humans with nature, and awe visitors--in a lighthearted way. The full-color ink and watercolor illustrations are rendered in a sketchy, elastic, cartoon style and feature a wonderful multicultural cast and playful moments for sharp-eyed readers to spot. This thoroughly researched title cites sources that include books and websites, making it ideal for browsing purposes or for school reports. Marge Loch-Wouters, La Crosse Public Library, WI. 40p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2014. |
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| Booklist | 06/01/2014 |
| Grades K-3. Beginning 4,400 years ago, Krull traces the history of zoos, starting with the Sumerian city of Ur (in what is now Iraq) and moving around the world, through such places as Greece, Egypt, Rome, China, France, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, and all the way to contemporary San Diego. Most every zoo gets a page to itself, with a short descriptive paragraph highlighting its history and noting the personages responsible (including the likes of folks such as Charlemagne, Kublai Khan, and Moctezuma II) and the particular animals they collected. These small blocks of text are surrounded by Hall's inviting images, which help make the information more accessible. The broad, warm, ink-and-watercolor paintings are peppered with comic detail (note the iconic blue NYC Greek-key coffee cup on Aristotle's table). Final pages sum up zoos' contributions to contemporary science and culture. Curious children will enjoy such an investigative celebration. Barthelmess, Thom. 40p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | 07/01/2014 |
| Ad. Gr. 2-4. Zippy indeed is this speedy timeline of significant moments of zoo history that offers a paragraph about a historical zoo on each page, beginning 4,400 years ago with the Sumerian King of Ur's private zoo. Subsequent stops range through great lights of early history such as Ethiopia, China, and Greece, covering private zoos of rulers and citizens and municipal zoos such as the one in the city of Alexandria. The nineteenth century sees the first publicly accessible zoo in London and the beginning of the notion of zoos as places of preservation; the twentieth century sees the disappearance of zoo cages in favor of wild environments and the growth of breeding programs. There's plenty of interesting information here, balanced with lively details about pope-dousing elephants and celebrity giraffes, and the transformation of zoos from royal status symbols to their contemporary iteration is effectively conveyed. However, the hit-and-run approach to history leaves scads of questions unanswered (how did municipal zoos so grow in popularity in a mere few decades that Melbourne felt obliged to have one by 1862? How did all these zoos acquire their animals, and how did they keep them?) and stories without punchlines (what did Pope Leo X do after the elephant sprayed him?). New Yorker artist Hall imbues his figures with the same lithe, round-eyed cartoonish charm as mid-century magazine cartoonists such as Whitney Darrow, yet his ink and watercolor illustrations also have a bold nursery vigor; in fact, the art, despite its touches of artless sophistication, aims the pages to a younger audience than the text suggests. Animal lovers will find some intriguing anecdotes here, though, and this may sate the curiosity of zoo aficionados not yet ready for Zoehfeld's Wild Lives (BCCB 4/06). A list of sources is appended. DS. 40p. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, c2014. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 11/01/2014 |
| 3. K-3. A broadly sketched timeline (beginning "4,400 years ago" and moving through the centuries) details humans' fascination with exotic animals and consequent development of zoos. In ancient times, possession of wild animals indicated ruling power; in more modern times, wildlife in captivity promoted close observation and led to appreciation and conservation. Cartoony illustrations add interest and some humor to the conversational text. Bib. pmc. 40pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 05/01/2014 |
| For at least 4,400 years, people have collected and displayed animals for entertainment, education and enlightenment.From the long-ago kingdom of Ur, where the ruler enjoyed roaring at his lions, to San Diego, Calif., home of a popular panda cub today, zoos have provided public and private amusement and instruction for thousands of years. Krull's fast-paced survey offers a different animal collection on nearly every page. Date and place serve as headings; a paragraph of description follows. She's found intriguing examples including a "Garden of Intelligence" in ancient China, an aviary-cum-dining hall in Rome, a particularly extensive holding belonging to Aztec emperor Moctezuma II and a present-day bird park in Bali, Indonesia. She mentions zoo conservation work and the move toward natural housing for the animals. The text is lively and often humorous. There's the elephant who sprayed a 16th-century pope and 15 "very confused American buffalo" in Grand Central Terminal in New York. Hall's watercolor-and-ink illustrations, familiar to readers of the New Yorker and other magazines for adults, work equally well for a child audience. His fluidly drawn animals have amusing, slightly goofy expressions, the people are remarkably varied, and the settings include recognizable elements from historical times and places. Varying from vignettes to double-page spreads, these images add greatly to the overall appeal.A romp through zoo history presented with pizzazz. (sources) (Informational picture book. 4-8). 40pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 04/28/2014 |
| Ages 4-8. From their beginnings as private collections of the rich and powerful to the mass attractions and conservation hubs they are today, zoos have an interesting and sometimes odd history, as Krull (the Lives of... series) details. From Indonesia to Italy, Sweden to San Diego, colorful headings on each page introduce a place and year where zoo history was made, and a short paragraph follows (in 16th-century Afghanistan and India, "Akbar the Great treats his one thousand cheetahs more kindly than most people of his time. To care for them and the other animals he befriends, he builds zoos much grander than any in Europe in the lands he conquers"). Readers learn about a holy water-spraying elephant in Rome in 1513 and a hairdo-inspiring giraffe in 1827 France. Hall's (Everyone Sleeps) ink-and-watercolor illustrations, vignettelike in their half-page displays, feature expressive eyes on both animals and humans in many spreads. The art's spare, naive style fits the brief-text format as the narrative moves briskly and chronologically through some highlights of zoo history, avoiding any controversial aspects. Kids of all ages will be left craving a trip to the zoo. (June). 40p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2014. |
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