A Trip to The Zoo

The Singing Gorilla: Understanding Animal Intelligence by George Page
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Pig that Wants to be Eaten bu Julian Baggini
Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Daddy's girl by Lisa Scottoline
Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin
Us by Richard Mason
ZOO by Hirotaka Adachi
Tomorrow by Graham Swift

(Ah, but the real trick is to find authors called Peter, Paul, and Mary...)

> 2

Very good!

We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard, by Belinda Hurmence
Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, by John Sutherland
Stay Me, oh comfort me, by M.F.K. Fisher
All the World's a Stage, by Ronald Harwood
Day Of The Dead and other Mortal Reflections, by F. Gonzalez-Crussi

Now back to the original theme . . .

Metropolitan Zoo, by Joseph Bell
Tales from the Red Lion, by John Weagley
Red Fox, by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems, by Ursula K. LeGuin
Wolf Whistle, by Lewis Nordan

Crocodile in the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Winter of the Wolf Moon by Steve Hamilton
Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

> 2 & 3 -- Let's keep this story going.

Someone to Watch Over Me by Jill Churchill
Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days by Tim LaHaye
Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Open by Andre Agassi

> 6
It's not actually a story. It's the lyrics to a song by Tom Paxton.

But a story is good, too.

Is my face red! Learning moment -- never too old.

Since I don't know the lyrics...

The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves by Sonja Yoerg
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are by Roger Fouts

The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes

The Dog beneath the Skin
by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood

The Fox and the Camelias
by Ignazio Silone

The Bear* by Anton Chekhov

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

* also translated as The Boor

The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern
The Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
Rabbit Run by John Updike
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Marie Auel
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Bittner

"The Giraffe" (poem) by Nikolai Gumilev

The Bear by William Faulkner

Monkey (classic of Chinese foklore/fiction)

A Lion is in the Streets by Ada Langley

"The Tiger" (poem) by William Blake

Polar Bears on the Path by Ben M. Baglio
Born Free: a Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Island of the blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Cold Beer and Crocodiles by Roff Smith

Dog Day Afternoon by Leslie Waller*

I am a Cat by Soseki Natsume

The Merry Hippo by Elspeth Huxley

The Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert N. Peck

*writing as Patrick Mann

Armadillo Trail: the Northward Journey of
the Armadillo by Stephen Swinburne

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

Cat Man by Edward Hoagland

Itʻs so Nice to have a Wolf around the House
by Harry Allard*

Pogo Possum by Walt Kelley

*I showed the film version of this to 1 or 2 graders or pre-schoolers. When I read the title one student corrected me, saying "Its so SPOOKY to have a wolf around the house." It broke everyone up; not the adjective I would have used for correction.

Tiger Eye by Marjorie M. Liu
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Where the Wild Things Are
The White Lions of Timbavati by Chris McBride
Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
The Camel Club by David Baldacci
The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
The Flamingo's Smile by Stephen Jay Gould
The Sinister Pig by Tony Hillerman
The Honey Badger by Robert Ruark
The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

The Young Lions Irwin Shaw
Elephant Walk Robert Standish
The Elephant Man Bernard Pomeray
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Peter Matthiessen
Horse Heaven Jane Smiley

Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey

"The Bear that Walks" (poem)
by Rudyard Kipling

Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome
by Grant Showerman

If I ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss

"The Horse Stealers" (shor story)
by Anton Chekhov

Put me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
Woman at the Washington Zoo by Marjorie Williams
Animalia by Graeme Base
Zooillogical Rhymes by Alexander Reid
Polar Bears Past Bedtime by Mary Pope Osborne

The Camel Bookmobile
Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures Across Africa
The Nocturnal Naturalist
Bugles and a Tiger
Tripmaster Monkey

Alps and Elephants: Hannibalʻs March
by Gavin de Beer Weber

Pigs is Pigs by Ellis P. Butler

No Other Tiger by A.E.W. Mason

Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco

The Leopard
by giovanni Tommasi di Lampedusa

Great Lion of God by Taylor Caldwell
The Snake, The Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman
The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Monkeys on the Interstate by Jack Hanna
Bucking the Tiger by Bruce Olds
Lion Game by James Schmitz
The Night the Bear the Goombaw by Patrick McManus

A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez

Crocodile: Evolutionʻs Greatest Survivor
by Lynne Kelly

Incident at the Merry Hippo by Elspeth Huxley

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox
by James Macgregor Burns

Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence

The Plumed Serpent by D H Lawrence
The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes
Pig Island by Mo Hayder

Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi
The Girl at the Lion D'or by Sebastian Faullks