Travel through the zoo and learn about zoo animals through rhyme. Count up all of the animals you have seen. Includes section "For Creative Minds" with cards and activities.

Presents the lyrics to a song from the Broadway musical, "Do Re Mi," in which animals in an overcrowded zoo beg to be let out while accidentally stepping on one anothers trunks, quills, and toes.

With friendly facts, funny pictures, and animals galore, What's New? The Zoo! is history to roar for! Did you know . . . * The first zoo was established forty-three hundred years ago in what is now Iraq?* Aztec King Moctezuma II had such an incredible collection of animals that it took six hundred men and women to care for them?* Children across Great Britain wrote to Queen Victoria when Jumbo the elephant was sold away from the London Zoo?* Fifty buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?* Zoos now play a crucial role in animal conservation?Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring witty insight, jazzy style, and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals -- and the ways animals have changed us in turn.

A baby hippo is born at the zoo.

Zoos have changed a lot over the past hundred years. Zoos still display animals for people to marvel at and enjoy. But that's not all they do. Zoos work to conserve wildlife.

What's new at the zoo this time around? A "wild boose", a frisky "fobit", and a sly "mox" are just a few of the fabulous animals in this hilarious mix-and-match pop-up book, a sequel to What's New at the Zoo? Full color throughout.