With large, easy-to-read text and color photos, beginning readers will learn about tiger cubs and what their lives are like at the zoo, including how they play, what they eat, and how they communicate with each other. An illustrated Words to Know section at the beginning of the book prepares readers to understand the vocabulary they will encounter in the text.

The Zoo Life series offers a fascinating look at the captivating world of animals and zoos. With content supplied and verified by experienced zoo staff, each book explores the life of an animal born in an American zoo and compares it to life in the wild. Brain boosters, folktales, and links to conservation organizations provide additional insights into each species.

For ages 4-8. San Diego Zoo Animal Library gives youngsters the opportunity to learn about many animals, most of which can only be seen in zoos. Some of these animals are endangered. Others are rapidly disappearing from the earth. The Library offers the chance to learn about these animals before they are gone forever. And each volume of the Library is numbered. Collect them all and provide you child with an encyclopaedia of animal life.

Tigers are some of the most fearsome big cats on the planet. But they begin as tiny babies that rely on mom for everything! Watch them grow from darling cubs into ferocious rulers of the forest in this book for early readers.

Leaving behind a nomadic and dangerous career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, the country of her childhood and a place of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn-also deeply scarred by the past and herself a keeper of secrets-tries to support her sister, even as she fears that India will be Sarah's undoing. As Sarah faces challenges in her new job-made complicated by complex local politics and a forbidden love-Quinn copes with their mother's refusal to talk about the past, her son's life-threatening illness, and her own increasingly troubled marriage. When Sarah asks Quinn to join her in India, Quinn realizes that the only way to overcome the past is to return to it, and it is in this place of stunning natural beauty and hidden danger that the sisters can finally understand the ways in which their family has disappeared-from their shared history, from one another-and recognize that they may need to risk everything to find themselves again. With dramatic urgency, a powerful sense of place, and a beautifully rendered cast of characters revealing a deep understanding of human nature in all its flawed glory, Katy Yocom has created an unforgettable novel about saving all that is precious, from endangered species to the indelible bonds among family.

Fred and Helen Martini longed for a baby, and they ended up with dozens of lion and tiger cubs! Snuggle up to this purr-fect read aloud about the Bronx Zoo's first female zoo-keeper. When Bronx Zoo-keeper Fred brought home a lion cub, Helen Martini instantly embraced it. The cub's mother lost the instinct to care for him. "Just do for him what you would do with a human baby," Fred suggested...and she did. Helen named him MacArthur, and fed him milk from a bottle and cooed him to sleep in a crib. Soon enough, MacArthur was not the only cub bathed in the tub! The couple continues to raise lion and tiger cubs as their own, until they are old enough to return them to zoos. Helen becomes the first female zookeeper at the Bronx zoo, the keeper of the nursery. This is a terrific non-fiction book to read aloud while snuggling up with your cubs! Filled with adorable baby cats, this is a story about love, dedication, and a new kind of family. Gorgeously patterned illustrations by Julie Downing detail the in-home nursery and a warm pallet creates a cozy pairing with Candace Fleming's lovely language. Backmatter includes a short biography of Helen Martini and a selected bibliography. A Junior Library Guild Selection A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Named to the Texas Topaz Reading List

Tiger cubs may be cute, but give them a couple years and they’re just as fierce as their protective mothers! This exciting book gives budding readers a first look at the lives these incredible cats live, searching for food and guarding their territory. Readers learn that mother tigers take care of their cubs, who can’t even see at birth! Colorful photographs also show tigers in zoos, where readers learn that people take care of and study these cubs as they grow older.