A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

Amos McGee, a friendly zoo keeper, always makes time to visit his animal friends, but when he becomes sick and cannot come in to work, the animals pay him a visit instead.

Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria and the whole crew join the circus to escape Captain Dubois of Animal Control.

Sampson is a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Central Park, and he holds court over all the other animals. Ryan is the pride and joy of Sampson's life and he becomes devastated when one day Ryan is crated up and sent away to another zoo.

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.

"A tissue box can be used to make an elephant. A paper plate can be turned into a sea lion. A monkey can be made with foam sheets. These and other fun zoo animal crafts are waiting for readers with each turn of the page. By following detailed, step-by-step instructions, readers are able to create an array of zoo animals from common household items. Readers are aided by colorful photographs of each step in the process, as well as of the finished product....

When the gingerbread man gets separated from his class during a field trip to the zoo, he uses his teacher's animal scavenger hunt clues to find his way back to them.