Review By JESSICA ALMY Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee allows emerging readers to discover the touching real-life tale of an unlikely companionship. (You may have seen the duo on CNN or NBC.) While there is a sad side to this story — the young hippo Owen befriends the tortoise Mzee after he [...]
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Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee
November 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books
Tags:Africa·Carol Schwartz·Early Elementary·Early Readers·Friendship·Hippopotamus·Interspecies Friendship·Roberta Edwards·Tortoises·Zoo
Madagascar
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Movies
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Opening to the song “Born Free,” “Madagascar” follows the adventures of Marty the zebra, Alex the lion, Gloria the hippopotamus and Melman the giraffe. Denizens of the Central Park Zoo, they and their neighbors have varying degrees of affection for the institution. When Marty happens upon a group of penguins working [...]
Tags:Early Elementary·Giraffes·Hippopotamus·Jennifer Gannett·Lion·Older Elementary·Zebra·Zoo
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