Zoos


The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Caldecott Medal Winner)
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
West With Giraffes
Belly Up (FunJungle, #1)
Good Night, Gorilla
Pssst
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
The Opposite Zoo
We Bought a Zoo
Amos McGee Misses the Bus
Xander's Panda Party
My Heart Is Like a Zoo: A Story About Feelings, Emotions, and Self-Expression
Pride of Eden by Taylor  BrownSwamplandia! by Karen RussellWinged Obsession by Jessica SpeartNo Beast So Fierce by Dane HuckelbridgeStolen World by Jennie Erin Smith
Tiger King Readalikes
10 books — 6 voters
Warning! Short Stories for Middle School Boys Only, Because G... by Gene J. MillerA Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. SteadDear Zoo by Rod CampbellPolar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr.Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
Children's Zoo Reads
61 books — 41 voters

If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. SeussLife of Pi by Yann MartelWater for Elephants by Sara GruenPenguins and Mortal Peril by Ruby LorenThe Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Zoos in Fiction
133 books — 29 voters

We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin MeeOur Zoo by June MottersheadZoo Story by Thomas   FrenchBabylon's Ark by Lawrence  AnthonyThe Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Books about Zoos
41 books — 27 voters

Jason Hribal
Organization and mutual aid are essential aspects in many animal cultures, including elephants, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Zoos, however, are places wherein that culture is restricted, altered, or even destroyed. This is done, whether intentionally or not, through the removal of autonomy, the break up of the family unit, restrictions on corporeal movement, continuous transfer of animals from one facility to next, and in the alteration of other living patterns. Psychologists call this a process o ...more
Jason Hribal, Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance

It was when I moved to Oregon in 2013 that I really began to examine how conservation did and did not make the lives of individual animals better.
Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

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