![]() ![]() I decided over the weekend that I wanted to do a genre study of picture book biographies with my 4th graders. This introduction is followed by the title pages and then the story of Helen's involvement with animals begins. ![]() ![]() One of the text features I'll be sure to draw my students' attention to is the unique hook Lyon uses - the first two pages of italicized text ask the reader to imagine herself as a lion cub being placed in a box in the back of the car. George Ella Lyon brings her rhythmic prose to the simple narrative. Peter Catalonato's soothing watercolors beautifully capture the 'catness' of the animals. Set in the 40s, Helen first cared for a lion cub and three tiger cubs in her small New York apartment. ** This picture book biography tells the story of the first female zookeeper in the history of the Bronx zoo - Helen Martini. ![]()
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