Bookshelf: October 2010
Jungle Jack Hanna’s What Zookeepers Do

by Jack Hanna
photographs by Rick A. Prebeg
Scholastic, 1998
Hanna, familiar to many from his television appearances, provides an entertaining, informative, behind-the-scenes look at the Columbus Zoo. His anecdotal style and firsthand knowledge lend an extra thrill to such already exciting topics as how to move a venomous spitting cobra or raise a baby gorilla. Because this is an older title, some of the photos show zookeepers in outmoded fashions, but the many animal photos will never go out of style. Our favorites: Hanna rubbing oil into Clyde the rhinoceros’s skin and the gorilla getting a dental checkup.



