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Product Details
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, March 2003
Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 068984221X
ISBN-13: 9780689842214
Grades: K - 3
Awards and Nominations
- Keystone to Reading Book Award Master List (PA)
- Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Books of the Year
- Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner
- Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (IN)
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Description
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.
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