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- Herausgeber: Nosy Crow
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Zoe's Rescue Zoo
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
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! Zoe is thrilled to welcome a new animal to the rescue zoo - an adorable tiger cub! The talkative cub loves to make friends but his stories are keeping the other animals awake all night. Can Zoe come up with a sleepover solution that makes everyone happy? 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 The Helpful Hedgehog The Rowdy Red Panda
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“What is it?” chattered Meep, climbing on to Zoe’s shoulder. The blur of stripy fur clambered up the rocks then sat still for a moment, looking this way and that.
“It’s a tiger cub!” cried Zoe.
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Look out for:
The Lonely Lion Cub
The Puzzled Penguin
The Playful Panda
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
The Helpful Hedgehog
The Rowdy Red Panda
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With special thanks to Siobhan Curham
For John Arthur
Chapter One
A New Arrival
Zoe Parker took a fish from her bucket and threw it into the water. It was breakfast time at the Rescue Zoo where she lived, and Zoe was helping to feed the sea otters. Sasha, one of the youngest sea otters, caught the fish in her front paws and started to eat. Sasha’s brother and sister, Alex and Nina, whistled happily as 2Zoe threw more fish into the water for them.
Someone wasn’t excited though.
“Yuck, yuck, yuck!” said Zoe’s pet mouse lemur, Meep.
Zoe was able to understand what Meep was saying because Zoe had a special secret. She was able to talk to animals and understand what they were saying. No-one else knew her secret, not even her mum or her Great-Uncle Horace. “What’s wrong?” she asked, crouching down beside Meep.
“Fish for breakfast!” Meep wrinkled his tiny black nose.
“Don’t worry,” Zoe smiled. “I have something I know you’ll like.” She took a banana from the pocket of her shorts, peeled it, and handed it to Meep.3
“Yum, yum, yum!” exclaimed Meep, before taking a bite.
Zoe looked back at the pool. Three sea otters were floating on their backs eating their fish, their wet coats glistening in the summer sunshine.
“How are you getting on, Zoe?” Jess, the sea otters’ keeper, called as she came into the enclosure.
“Great!” replied Zoe. “They’re really enjoying their fish.”
“They certainly seem happy,” said Jess as the sea otters gave a contented cooing sound. “But are you sure you don’t mind working on the first day of your summer holiday?”4
“No, it’s fun!” Zoe wanted to be a zookeeper when she grew up, and she loved helping with the animals whenever she could.
“It looks as if we’ll be needing your help,” said Jess, nodding to the empty enclosure next door. “I wonder who our new arrival will be.”
Zoe looked at the enclosure. Her Great-Uncle Horace, who owned the Rescue Zoo, had recently had a beautiful new habitat built. There was a pond in the middle, with rocks and trees all around it. “It must be something that needs a lot of space and likes to climb and swim,” said Zoe. “Maybe it’s a crocodile!”
“Could be. Or maybe it’s a family of apes,” said Jess, throwing more fish into the water.5
Zoe nodded.
A cheery BEEP BEEP BEEP rang out around the zoo. Great-Uncle Horace’s convertible car drove through the zoo gates. The car’s top was down and Great-Uncle Horace was wearing a hat to shield his face from the sun. A small trailer was attached to the back of the convertible car, holding a large crate. Zoe’s heart pounded with excitement. It must be the new animal! The elephants in the enclosure nearby began to trumpet cheerily. The monkeys began to shriek with excitement. Meep ran round in circles waving his paws. All of the animals loved Great-Uncle Horace because he’d rescued them and brought them to live in the zoo.
Zoe put down her bucket and raced 6from the otters’ enclosure. Meep and Jess followed close behind. Several of the other keepers and Zoe’s mum, Lucy, who was the zoo vet, were also hurrying over.
“Great-Uncle Horace, it’s so good to see you!” cried Zoe. “Do you have the new animal? Who have you rescued this time?”
7“Good morning, Zoe,” called Great-Uncle Horace, as he got out of the car. There was a flutter of wings and a beautiful bright blue bird flew out and perched on his shoulder. It was Kiki, Great-Uncle Horace’s hyacinth macaw, who went everywhere with him.8
“Can some of you help me with this crate?” Great-Uncle Horace asked the keepers.
Zoe watched as Great-Uncle Horace, Mark, the big cat keeper, and Mr Pinch, the zoo manager, carefully lowered the crate right in front of the new enclosure. Great-Uncle Horace opened the enclosure gate. Then he opened the crate. A blur of orange, white and black stripy fur raced into the enclosure.
“What is it?” chattered Meep, climbing on to Zoe’s shoulder to get a better view. The blur of stripy fur clambered up the rocks then sat still for a moment, looking this way and that.
“It’s a tiger cub!” cried Zoe.
Everyone laughed and cheered as the tiger cub bounced around the enclosure 9and splashed into the pool. Everyone apart from Mr Pinch.
“Look at the mess it’s making, splashing water everywhere,” he said with a sigh. Mr Pinch always wanted everything to be neat and tidy.
“Tigers love to swim, Mr Pinch,” said Mark. “They can swim up to twenty-nine kilometres a day.”10
“Wow!” exclaimed Zoe. “So that’s why he’s got his own pond.”
“Why on earth would tigers want to do that?” Mr Pinch frowned and shook his head.
“It sounds like tigers love water just as much as sea otters do,” chuckled Jess.
The cub got out of the water and scampered up the rocks. He yelped happily as he climbed higher.
“Looks like tigers love to climb too,” giggled Zoe.
“And leap.” Mark laughed as the cub jumped from one rock to the next.
“What’s the tiger saying?” Meep whispered in Zoe’s ear, as the cub continued to yelp.
“He’s saying he’s really happy to be here,” Zoe whispered back. “Where 11did you rescue him from, Great-Uncle Horace?”
“From a place called Bengal in India,” replied Great-Uncle Horace. “Unfortunately, the forest he was born in has been turned into farmland. When his mother died, he had nowhere to live.”
“That’s really sad,” said Zoe, frowning.
