Tiger Time - Couverture rigide

Einhorn, Kama

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1328767078 ISBN 13 : 9781328767073

Editeur : HMH Books for Young Readers, 2019

Synopsis

Go inside Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, where you will meet a tiger named Kamal, one of 500 animals who has been rescued and now lives in safety.  Includes full-color photos, graphics, and maps.

Meet Kamal! He’s a tiger, and a resident of Wild Animal Sanctuary (WAS) in Colorado, along with 500 other big animals. Most of these animals have never lived in the wild. They’ve come from roadside zoos, entertainment facilities, and even people’s homes! But even though a tiger can be super adorable as a baby, big (and little) tigers should never be pets. That’s where WAS steps in. Since 1980, WAS has rescued and cared for lions, tigers, bears, leopards, jaguars, mountain lions, and some smaller carnivores such as wolves, bobcats, lynxes, foxes, and coyotes. There are also alpacas and horses, a few emus, several ostriches, one porcupine, one raccoon, and one camel! While it may sound amazing to be surrounded by all these incredible animals of all shapes and sizes, the animals have often come from terrible situations, and lack instincts that would keep them alive if they were able to live where they belong. They have been malnourished, declawed, not properly vetted. They don’t know how to hunt, have never been able to mate (or have mated too much), and, most of all, have no trust in humans. The staff at WAS changes all of that, slowly but surely, getting animals like Kamal the tiger healthy, trusting, and safe again—and as close to wild as they can be. Tigers are very smart, loyal, and independent; Kamal was living in a dog crate with a man in a trailer, posing for pictures. It was no way for a tiger to live. Now Kamal has a habitat with tall prairie grass and a pond the size of a football field. It may not be the wild, but WAS is as close to perfect as it gets.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kama Einhorn is a Brooklyn-based writer and children’s media editor. She has a master’s degree in literacy education from the University of California at Berkeley and was an editor at Scholastic before becoming a content creator at Sesame Street. She's written more than forty books for kids along with materials and web content for Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, and the Humane Society of the United States.

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1328767078
• ISBN 13: 9781328767073
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Product Safety Manager; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; HarperCollins, Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin 1; D01 C9W8; Irlande