| ID | 026737 |
| Call Number | 921/MAR |
| Title Proper | Mother to tigers |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lyon, George Ella ; Catalanotto, Peter (ill.) |
| Publication | New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002. |
| Description | 32p Brown spine |
| Note | Tells the story of how Helen Frances Theresa Delaney Martini cared for baby zoo animals, started the first zoo nursery and became the first woman zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo. You are a Bengal tiger cub, one of three -- Dacca, Rajpur, Raniganj -- abandoned by your mother. You are so cold and thin that someone with kind hands puts you on a heating pad and sits by you for hours, moistening your mouth with milk. When you give a weak cry and look up, there is a human face almost crying too. Your new mother is Helen Delaney Martini, who has already raised a lion cub in her New York apartment. Tigers in the bathtub will be no problem for her and her husband, Fred. This remarkable book - strikingly striped as tigers are, sympathetically spoken as any child could wish - tells the story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper. |
| Standard Number | 9780689842214 |
| Price. Qualification | $18.99(Hb) |
| Classification Number | 921 |
| Key Words | Women - Biography ; Tigers ; Animal babies ; UOI - Jobs ; Zoo keepers ; Lexile AD780L ; UOI - Animals/Living things ; Zoo keepers - Biography ; Biographies ; Martini, Helen |