133 books
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29 voters
Zoos Books
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The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.27 — 213,929 ratings — published 2012
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.49 — 92,386 ratings — published 2007
A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Caldecott Medal Winner)
by (shelved 12 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.26 — 21,933 ratings — published 2010
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,243 ratings — published 2010
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,712 ratings — published 2007
Good Night, Gorilla (Board book)
by (shelved 9 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.24 — 52,159 ratings — published 1994
West with Giraffes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.32 — 208,142 ratings — published 2021
Belly Up (FunJungle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,807 ratings — published 2010
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,691 ratings — published 2007
The Opposite Zoo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.62 — 504 ratings — published 2016
We Bought a Zoo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.54 — 8,150 ratings — published 2008
Amos McGee Misses the Bus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.18 — 709 ratings — published 2021
Xander's Panda Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,523 ratings — published 2013
My Heart Is Like a Zoo: A Story About Feelings, Emotions, and Self-Expression (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,654 ratings — published 2009
Wild About Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,910 ratings — published 2004
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,787 ratings — published 2019
Fierce Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.52 — 25,070 ratings — published 2017
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,789 ratings — published 2015
The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.63 — 83 ratings — published 2008
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.58 — 10,079 ratings — published 2010
The Modern Ark: The Story of Zoos: Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.88 — 66 ratings — published 1951
Sailing With Noah: Stories from the World of Zoos (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.23 — 69 ratings — published 2006
The Peaceable Kingdom: A Year in the Life of America's Oldest Zoo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.20 — 54 ratings — published 1988
Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo's First Woman Zookeeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.22 — 522 ratings — published 2020
The Elephant's Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,194 ratings — published 2020
What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.12 — 464 ratings — published 2017
Oh No, Bobo!: You're in Trouble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.62 — 127 ratings — published 2019
Hippopotamister (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,319 ratings — published 2016
Zoobreak (Swindle, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,081 ratings — published 2009
Ida, Always (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,759 ratings — published 2016
Splat and the Cool School Trip (Splat the Cat)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.68 — 507 ratings — published 2013
New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 1996
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,768,820 ratings — published 2001
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,998 ratings — published 2014
Animal Strike at the Zoo. It's True! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.93 — 655 ratings — published 2006
Where's Walrus? And Penguin? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.95 — 652 ratings — published 2015
The Koala of Death (A Gunn Zoo Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.76 — 741 ratings — published 2010
The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth (Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,336 ratings — published 2014
The Anteater of Death (A Gunn Zoo Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,134 ratings — published 2008
What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 3.66 — 176 ratings — published 2014
The Secret Zoo (The Secret Zoo, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,845 ratings — published 2007
Fraidyzoo: A Picture Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.09 — 886 ratings — published 2013
The Escape of Marvin the Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.11 — 298 ratings — published 1992
Jungle Jack: My Wild Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as zoos)
avg rating 4.23 — 301 ratings — published 2008
“One night at closing time in his second week at his second week on the job, a possible explanation popped up, unasked for.
They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I’m caged too.”
― Goblin
They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I’m caged too.”
― Goblin
“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 of alienation and institutionalization. Hence, within these species, what we tend to see in zoos is a much more individualistic-based community.”
― Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
― Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance


















