Henry Carter Hull

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, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...

A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.

Rhyming text depicts the chaos caused by shouting at the zoo.

Uses a field trip to the zoo to introduce various zoo animals, their habitats and how they are recreated, and their care.

In this version of a familiar song, baby animals ride to the children's zoo on the zoo train.

Joining the new baby animals at the zoo are the much-loved pengaroo and the pandacat.

Presents the lyrics to a song from the Broadway musical, "Do Re Mi," in which animals in an overcrowded zoo beg to be let out while accidentally stepping on one anothers trunks, quills, and toes.

A cumulative verse with rebuses in which a young boy has a wonderful day at the zoo, despite a series of mishaps with the animals.

Teddy Fitzroy must solve the crime of the kidnapped rare and expensive panda, Li Ping.