Sam the zookeeper never forgets to feed the animals.

After a young girl tells the zookeepers to send the animals to her house should anything go wrong at the zoo, a series of zoo emergencies results in some unusual houseguests for the girl and her family.

Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.

Because his loud snores disturb all the other animals at the zoo, Bernard the otter tries to find a solution.

"Chaos ensues when a child imagines a zoo filled with animals doing the unusual and the unlikely"--

When Lily discovers a bear in her garden, she mistakenly thinks it is a dog and wants to keep it for her pet.

After reading that there will be a dance at the zoo, Little Penguin tries to learn some steps from the other animals but neither Monkey's samba, Flamingo's ballet, nor the hippos' line dance seems quite right for him.

After waiting months and months, the zoo animals finally get to meet the new baby elephant.

When the zookeeper's jacket seems a trifle tight one morning, his excessive concern worries the animals.

"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...