by Gerald Durrell
I added this book to my PaperBackSwap.com wish list as soon as I read My Family and Other Animals. In this book, Mr. Durrell is grown and beginning a zoo, one he hopes will allow a dedicated staff to breed captive populations of animals endangered in the wild.
It's just as fabulous as My Family and Other Animals. There are plenty of hilarious mishaps like the attempt at recording a television program, back when television was a new experience, and chasing a tapir through a farmer's field in the middle of the night. It's also a fascinating look at building a zoo and the beginnings of animal population management. Wonderfully, Jersey Zoo still exists.
While there are some descriptions of animal bodily functions, this book is a more suitable for reading aloud than My Family and Other Animals. I intend to add it to our nature read aloud list for next year and I think everyone will be delighted.
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