Zoological Gardens

Her teachers were a Scottish nurse (a believer in witches and fairies), governesses, and a visiting teacher of art, Miss Cameron . Beatrix sketched animals constantly, both at home and at the London Zoo ...

CR was a feisty child, referred to by her father as an angelic little demon. The children had various pets and liked to visit the Zoological Gardens . Until 1839, they made frequent visits...

The detached wryness of this book reminded Lauren Elkin of Djuna Barnes .The characters are rootless as well as detached.Lapinski, a Russian migrant living hand-to-mouth in the underbelly of London, tells the...

A climactic scene at the London Zoo (where Jane and Michael are transported by Mary Poppins on a night of full moon) presents the usual order of things magically transformed or reversed. The animals are...

She wrote it while living within earshot of the lions roaring at night in London Zoo . It was reprinted in 1979.

The photographs she and her husband took later in Yucatán show evidence of the skills she learned while working with her father. For example, to show the scale of the Mayan buildings they often included...

The stranger is a captive gorilla (based on the London Zoo 's Guy the Gorilla, who was much followed by the media and was a national celebrity among children at the time) who is discovered...

EH published a picture book called Suki, A Little Tiger, about the immensely popular tiger cub born at the London Zoo on 26 March 1963 who was bottle-reared after being rejected by her mother.