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- Herausgeber: Nosy Crow
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Zoe's Rescue Zoo
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
At Zoe's Rescue Zoo only the cutest, cuddliest animals need apply! Zoe loves living at her uncle's rescue zoo because there's always something exciting going on. And Zoe also has an amazing secret... She can actually TALK to the animals! When Zoe's school friends visit the rescue zoo to pick a class animal, Hugo the hedgehog wants to help. But he keeps getting into trouble! Can Zoe find a way for Hugo to be helpful? Another fantastic title in the perfect series for young animal lovers, beautifully illustrated throughout by Sophy Williams. Have you read Zoe's other adventures? The Lonely Lion Cub, The Puzzled Penguin, The Silky Seal Pup, The Eager Elephant, The Lucky Snow Leopard, The Pesky Polar Bear, The Cuddly Koala, The Wild Wolf Pup, The Happy Hippo, The Sleepy Snowy Owl, The Scruffy Sea Otter, The Picky Puffin, The Giggly Giraffe, The Curious Kangaroo, The Super Sloth, The Little Llama, The Messy Meerkat
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They all gathered closer as Great-Uncle Horace slowly pulled back the towel. Zoe peered inside the basket and saw a little ball of light fur covered in brown and white spikes.“It’s a hedgehog!” she exclaimed.
Chapter One
School at the Zoo
Zoe Parker poured the milk on to her breakfast cereal, doing a little dance as she did so.
“Careful!” said Zoe’s mum, Lucy, as some milk splashed on the table.
“Sorry!” Zoe said, grinning. “I’m just so excited. Today is going to be the best day ever!” 2
Meep, a mouse lemur and Zoe’s best friend, hopped up and down on the chair next to her. Zoe passed him a bowl filled with blueberries and sliced banana. “Here’s your breakfast, Meep,” she said.
With a happy yelp, Meep began gobbling up the fruit. Eating was his favourite thing in the whole world. A cheery trumpeting noise outside made Zoe smile. The elephants were obviously excited about having their breakfast too.
Zoe was excited because today she wasn’t going to school – her school was coming to her! Zoe’s class were visiting the Rescue Zoo on a trip and her teacher, Miss Hawkins, had decided that this year they’d choose an animal to adopt. Zoe’s class would learn all about the animal and visit it every half-term, and they 3would also create a display about it in their classroom. “I wonder which animal my class will choose,” she mumbled through a mouthful of cereal.
“Well, they certainly have a lot to choose from,” replied her mum.
Zoe looked at the clock on the wall. The class would be here soon, and Great-Uncle Horace hadn’t arrived yet.
Zoe’s Great-Uncle Horace was a famous explorer and animal expert. He saved animals from all over the world who were injured or endangered and brought them to live in his rescue zoo. Zoe and her mum lived at the zoo too, in a cosy cottage in the grounds. Lucy was a vet in the zoo hospital and Zoe dreamed of one day working as a zookeeper.
Great-Uncle Horace had promised he’d 4give Zoe’s class a talk about the zoo and about their chosen animal at a party in the café at the end of the day. He’d also said he’d join Zoe for breakfast so he could come and meet her class as they arrived.
“Do you want me to phone Uncle Horace to see what’s happened?” Lucy asked.
“Yes, please,” replied Zoe.
As Zoe’s mum left the room to make the call, Meep leaped on to the windowsill, waving his paws excitedly.
“What is it?” asked Zoe, looking out of the window. Outside a breeze was blowing through the trees and the bright blue 5sky was filled with swirls of orange and gold leaves.
“It’s raining leaves!” Meep chattered.
Zoe giggled. She was able to understand what the little lemur was saying because 6she had a special gift – she was able to talk to animals! Nobody knew Zoe could do this, though, not even her mum or Great-Uncle Horace. It was Zoe’s secret.
“It’s not raining leaves, Meep,” she said, stroking his silky grey fur. “It’s autumn.”
“I love autumn!” Meep said, but then looked a little worried. “But won’t the trees get cold without their leaves?”
“No,” Zoe told him. “They like it that way during the winter. And then they’ll grow new ones next spring!”
Zoe’s mum came back into the kitchen holding her vet’s bag. “Great-Uncle Horace says he’s very sorry he wasn’t able to join us for breakfast. He’s had to make an emergency rescue but he’ll be here as soon as he can.”
Zoe’s heart sank. Great-Uncle Horace 7rescued animals from all over the world, so there was no way to know where he might be, or when he’d be back.
“Why don’t you go and wait for your class by the zoo gates when you’re ready?” Lucy said, popping an apple into her vet’s bag. As always, a stethoscope was poking out of the top of the bag.
“I’m ready!” cried Zoe, leaping up.
“Er, you might want to put some shoes on first,” her mum said with a laugh.
Zoe looked down at her feet and giggled. She was still wearing her fluffy penguin slippers.
8She picked up Meep and raced from the room.
As soon as she was ready, Zoe hurried out of the little cottage with Meep on her shoulder. She skipped past the lions eating their breakfast and the hippos bathing in the mud and the monkeys swinging from 9their trees. She ran past the reptile house and the nocturnal mammal house and the petting zoo, calling a cheery “hello” to all her animal friends as she went. Her mum was right. There were so many animals in the Rescue Zoo; how would her classmates be able to choose just one to adopt?
10Finally, they reached the gates at the zoo’s entrance. Meep scampered up to the top of the gate, perching on a carving of Great-Uncle Horace’s hot-air balloon.
“Can I be adopted by your class, Zoe?” he chirped.
Zoe shook her head. “You’ve already been adopted – by me!”
Meep was the only animal in the zoo who didn’t live in an enclosure. He lived with Zoe and her mum in the cottage. He even slept curled at the foot of Zoe’s bed!
“They’re coming! They’re coming!” Meep cried as the school bus made its way down the road. Zoe’s tummy fluttered with excitement as the bus came to a stop, and one by one her classmates came through the gates. At the end of the line was their teacher, Miss Hawkins.
11“Today is going to be so cool!” exclaimed Zoe’s friend Priti, giving her a hug.
“I can’t wait to see the lions,” Jack said, grinning. “And the llamas and the sloths.”
“Don’t forget the monkeys,” added Nicola.
“My favourite are the elephants,” said Elliot.
“I like the giraffes,” said Grace. “Especially the baby giraffe, Jamie. He’s so cute.”
Zoe smiled. By the sounds of it her class wanted to adopt the entire zoo!
Meep scampered over to Zoe’s friends and started dancing around their feet.
“Hello, Meep!” Priti cried, bending down to stroke him.
The last person to get off the bus was 12a new boy called Toby. He was wearing a red woolly hat and clutching the sketchbook he took everywhere with him. Toby had only just started at their school, and he was really quiet.
“Hey, Toby, come and meet Meep,” Priti called.
