Books with title The Zookeeper's Wife

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When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw-and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants-otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.

Isabelle Scott is devastated to hear that she won't be able to visit her Swiss 'Mamie' (granny) that summer because Old Jamie, who helps her father run their zoo in Scotland, is ill in hospital. The thought of spending the summer holidays with her annoying young brother, Joe, and being looked after by 'Grumpy Gramps', is too much to bear... until Florence, a little white Swiss chamois and a present from Mamie, with help from a spider who weaves a magical golden web and Old Jamie's book about animals in the wild, transports her to the freedom of those worlds of the animals in the book. But she soon discovers that, because of what humans are doing to the planet, the lives of the animals she becomes are under threat. However, her journeys, which at times include Joe, whose behaviour improves because of the magic, Elodie, her best friend in Scotland, and Angélique, her Swiss friend, reinforce her determination to save endangered animals from extinction. Their Save the Koalas Campaign goes viral, and culminates with all four children ending up as koalas, together with Gramps, in a catastrophic bush fire like those of 2019. After they return, they set up a foundation together to help all endangered species.

Mr. Z The Zookeeper is the boss of a zoo. All the animals love him because he is a great zookeeper and is able to talk to them in their own language. A bizarre thing happens; in the zoo Bobby The Bear touches a meteor, turns into a human and then leaves. Mr. Z The Zookeeper has to find Bobby The Bear or else Randy The Ranger will close the zoo forever.Super Ha Ha, Hester The Jester, and The Kung Fu Alien are featured in this book. This is what they had to say: Super Ha Ha said, "This is a charming, witty, and hilarious book because I'm in it." Hester The Jester said, "Ditto." The Kung Fu Alien said, "Bullying is not cool, but this book is so cool!"

Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, bestselling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "guests" resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto.Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinski's young son risked his life carrying food to the guests, while also tending to an eccentric array of creatures in the house (pigs, hare, muskrat, foxes, and more). With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human names, it's a small wonder the zoo's code name became "The House under a Crazy Star." Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet.