Jungle Jack Hanna's What Zookeepers Do
The thrilling subject, colloquial style, and dramatic color photos will draw beginning readers to this Jungle Jack Book in the Hello Reader! series. Some words are long, but children will work them out as they read to find out what thecommissaryin the zoo prepares for the tigers to eat; how dental work is performed on a gorilla; and why the rhinoceros (pachyderm) needs to have oil rubbed into its thick skin. With those kinds of facts, there is really no need for all the exclamation points on every page: reading about a spitting cobra in the reptile house or looking at newly hatched eagle chicks is exciting enough. Good readers will enjoy this, too, and so will the read-aloud audience.Hazel Rochman