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Faithful Elephants (かわいそうなぞう, Kawaisō na Zō, lit."Poor Elephants"), is a story written by Yukio Tsuchiya and originally published in Japan in 1951. [1] It was published and marketed as a true story of the elephants in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo during World War II [2] but contained fiction.
Doctor De Soto is a picture book for children written and illustrated by William Steig and first published in 1982. It features a mouse dentist who must help a fox with a toothache without being eaten. Steig and his book won the 1983 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books, Hardcover, as did Barbara Cooney for Miss ...
The words: "The most dangerous animal in the world" were printed in red on top of a cage. [6] Behind the bars of the cage, there was a mirror. The exhibit allowed the human visitors to peer into the cage and see their reflection — marking them as "most dangerous". The exhibit at the Bronx Zoo was reportedly still there in 1989. [7] [8]
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The Adventure series is a collection of children's adventure novels by Willard Price.The original series, comprising 14 novels, was published between 1949 and 1980, and chronicles the adventures of teenagers Hal and Roger Hunt as they travel the world collecting exotic and dangerous animals.
"BLIT" (acronym of Berryman Logical Image Technique) is a 1988 science fiction short story by the British writer David Langford. It takes place in a setting where highly dangerous types of images called "basilisks" (after the legendary reptile) have been discovered; these images contain patterns within them that exploit flaws in the structure of the human mind to produce a lethal reaction ...
In rhyming text, various endangered animals are asked the question "What do you see?". The list of animals includes a giant panda, a bald eagle, a wild water buffalo, a spider monkey, a green sea turtle, a macaroni penguin, a sea lion, a red wolf, a whooping crane and a black panther. The last iteration is a dreaming child who sees all the ...
The book was listed as one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. [13] As of 2013, it ranked 21st on a Goodreads list of "Best Children's Books." [ 14 ] The book is praised by many parents and school teachers, many of whom requested a trade edition of the book from the publisher. [ 8 ]