'Twas the Day Before Zoo Day (Arbordale Collection) - Softcover

Catherine Ipcizade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607188732 ISBN 13: 9781607188735

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Children's Choice Award
This delightful adaptation of Twas the Night Before Christmas, shares zoo keeper and animal preparations for the upcoming Zoo Day. But things aren t going according to plan . . . The llamas won t quit spitting, the giraffes are drooling, and the zebras aren t happy at all with their stripes. Meanwhile, the zoo keepers are scurrying this way and that, cleaning up poop, ringing mealtime bells, and trying to get the animals bathed. Will Zoo Day go off without a hitch? The For Creative Minds educational section includes Creative Sparks: imagine you re a zoo keeper, and An Animal Adaptation Matching Activity.

4 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
33 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book's homepage
eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio
Aligned to State Standards / Lexile, Guided Reading, AR, Reading Counts, and Fountas & Pinnell

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The “For Creative Minds” educational section includes: Animal Adaptation Matching Activity Animal Cards: Memory, Go Fish, Who am I? An animal fact chart with math connection: · Sorting · Graphing · Number line Riddle me this animal riddles All about zoo keepers Creative Sparks: imagine you are a zoo keeper Animals include: · Alligators · Antelopes · Black bears · Elephants · Flamingos · Geckos · Giraffes · Gorillas · Lions · Llamas · Meerkats · Monkeys · Rhinos · Snakes · Toucans · Turtles · Zebras Thanks to Norah Farnham, Zoo Keeper, of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, for verifying the accuracy of the information in this book.

About the Author:

Catherine Ipcizade (pronounced ip-chi-zah'-deh) ('Twas the Day Before Zoo Day) has written for numerous publications, both in print and on-line, and also works as an assistant editor for Thirteen Minutes Magazine. In addition to writing and blogging, Catherine likes to spend time with her husband and two children, cozy up with a good book, spend time in the kitchen cooking and baking, and practicing photography. Catherine is a member of SCBWI and volunteers for The Little Owl Mentoring Program, a program that pairs published writers with high school students who wish to be writers. In addition to'Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, she also has also written African Animals: Giraffes; African Animals: Lions; and African Animals: Zebras. Catherine and her family live in southern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1607188732
• ISBN 13: 9781607188735
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Ben Hodson