Zoo Album

Children's Bookwatch, April, 2005

Zoo Album

Richard Morecroft & Alison Mackay

Karen Lloyd-Diviny, illustrator

Enchanted Lion Books

115 West 18th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10011

1592700322 $17.95 1-888-330-8477

Karen Lloyd-Diviny's artwork illustrating Richard Morecroft and Alison Mackay's informative text about the kinds of animals a visitor to the zoo would be apt to encounter is of museum quality work. Zoo Album takes the reader on a tour of various amazing real animals living in zoos. The animals' keepers offer insightful comments about a Komodo dragon so fearless that the keeper could simply take it for a walk to its new cage rather than ship it in a box, and the tasmanian devil who loves to scavenge, a talent her keepers encourage by dragging the food around her living area and putting it in a different hiding place every time. A fact-filled picturebook introducing young readers to amazing facts about truly fantastic animals.