The gorilla in the story is an unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.

"Can you catch the unicorn? You'll have to use your brain. So set your traps and prep your team to pet that rainbow mane!"--

Judy goes on a field trip to the zoo with her first grade class.

Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat,...

Rhyming text describes the preparations made for a boy's birthday party by his hosts, the animals at the zoo.

Orville is a little penguin who lives in a zoo and dreams of big adventures, like going to the Moon; the other animals are skeptical, but Orville is determined, so he builds a spaceship and sets out all by himself--and discovers that real adventures are best when they are shared with friends.

Between the time the crowds leave the zoo and the zookeeper makes her rounds, the animals come out for a rousing game of basketball.

"Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals"--

Depicts in rhyming text how love can be many different things, such as eager as a beaver, steady as a yak, or silly as a seal. Rhyming text and heart-shaped illustrations of zoo animals introduce a range of emotions from "snappy as a crab" to "peaceful as a portly walrus lounging on a towel."

Noah and his friends in the Secret Society join forces with four teens known as the Descenders to try to protect the Secret Zoo hidden behind the Clarksville City Zoo from monstrous sasquatches and the evil Shadowist.