Mother to Tigers

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By George Ella Lyon
Publisher Simon Schuster Children's Publishing - (AtheneumRichard Jackson Books)
Mother to Tigers
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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 striped as tigers are, sympathetically spoken as any child could wish tells the story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoos animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper.

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572 words572 words
32 pages32 pages
Lexile AD780LLexile AD780L
Published 2003Published 2003

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9780689842214

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