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Mother To Tigers
Mother to Tigers
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > General
Author:
Lyon, George Ella
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780689842214
Price:
USD 17.95
Publication Year:
2003

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Simon & Schuster UK.

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Book Description

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 Zoo's animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper.