Mother to Tigers (A Junior Library Guild Selection)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
068984221X
ISBN 13
9780689842214
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
32
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 stripes 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.
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 stripes 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.
Number of Copies
1
