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- Herausgeber: Nosy Crow Ltd
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Zoe's Rescue Zoo
- Sprache: Englisch
At Zoe's Rescue Zoo only the cutest, cuddliest animals need apply! Zoe loves living at her uncle's rescue zoo because there's always something exciting going on. And Zoe also has an amazing secret... She can actually TALK to the animals! Lia the lynx can't stop laughing at the other animals - and it's making them cross. Can Zoe help her to make friends? Have you read Zoe's other adventures? Check out The Busy Beaver, The Worried Wombat, The Rascally Raccoon, The Adventurous Arctic Fox, and many more titles!
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Once they were all inside and the gate was safely shut behind them, Great-Uncle Horace and Mark opened the crates. Zoe watched excitedly as two little wild cats came tumbling out…
Look out for:
The Lonely Lion Cub
The Puzzled Penguin
The Playful Panda
The Silky Seal Pup
The Eager Elephant
The Lucky Snow Leopard
The Pesky Polar Bear
The Cuddly Koala
The Wild Wolf Pup
The Happy Hippo
The Sleepy Snowy Owl
The Scruffy Sea Otter
The Picky Puffin
The Giggly Giraffe
The Curious Kangaroo
The Super Sloth
The Little Llama
The Messy Meerkat
The Helpful Hedgehog
The Rowdy Red Panda
The Talkative Tiger
The Runaway Reindeer
The Adventurous Arctic Fox
The Rascally Raccoon
The Worried Wombat
The Busy Beaver
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With special thanks to Siobhan Curham
Chapter One
A Big Splash
It was a cold and cloudy Saturday morning, but Zoe Parker didn’t mind at all. She liked the rain, especially when there were puddles to splash in. She pulled on her wellies and followed her mum, Lucy, out to the garden shed. Zoe’s pet mouse lemur, Meep, scampered along beside her. 2
“I wish I had wellies to keep my paws dry,” Meep squeaked.
Zoe grinned and picked him up. “Don’t worry,” she whispered. “You can go in my pocket if you like.” Zoe had a secret that even her mum and her Great-Uncle Horace didn’t know about. She could talk to animals and understand what they were saying!
“The storm last night caused a terrible mess,” Lucy called as she pushed a wheelbarrow out of the shed. “Could you help the zookeepers by clearing the footpath next to the elephant enclosure?”
“Of course,” Zoe replied. One of the best things about living at her Great-Uncle Horace’s Rescue Zoo was that even helping to clean up was fun. Meep seemed to agree as he leapt into the wheelbarrow and clapped his paws excitedly. 3
“I’ll ride in this,” he chattered. “It will keep my paws dry.”
“Thanks so much, Zoe,” Lucy said. “I’d better get to the zoo hospital. I have a kangaroo with a sore paw to take care of.” Lucy was the Rescue Zoo vet and she looked after the animals if they got sick or hurt.
“OK, Mum, give Bouncer a hug from me.”
4Zoe began pushing the wheelbarrow along the path to the elephant enclosure.
“Faster! Faster!” Meep chirped excitedly from inside.
Zoe giggled and started to run. “Good morning!” she called to the penguins as she ran past their enclosure.
The penguins honked and flapped their wings.
“I’m sorry the noisy storm kept you awake last night,” Zoe replied.
5“Faster! Faster!” Meep chirped again.
Zoe raced round the corner, but then she felt the front wheel catch on something.
“Oh no!” she cried as the barrow tipped to the side, launching Meep into the air. He landed with a splash in the middle of a puddle. “Meep, are you OK?”
“Why did you do that?” Meep squeaked. He hopped out of the puddle and shook the water from his fur. 6
“I didn’t mean to.” Zoe looked under the wheelbarrow and found a branch lying across the path beneath its wheel. “The wheel got stuck on this branch. The storm must have blown it down last night.”
“Maybe I should go in your pocket after all,” Meep chirped. “It might be safer.”
“I think that’s a very good idea!” Zoe picked him up and dried him with the end of her scarf. Then she popped him into her coat pocket and continued pushing the wheelbarrow.
“Slower! Slower!” Meep called, gripping the edge of her pocket with his tiny paws.
Zoe smiled. “Don’t worry, Meep. I’ll be 7really careful now.”
When they reached the elephant enclosure, they found Oscar, the oldest elephant, standing by the fence. As soon as he saw Zoe he trumpeted loudly.
“I’m sorry the storm last night made your enclosure messy,” Zoe replied.
Oscar gave another trumpet and pointed his trunk at the ground. There were leaves and twigs everywhere. Meep wriggled out of Zoe’s pocket and hopped on to the handle of the wheelbarrow.
“Don’t worry, Oscar, we’ve come to clear the mess,” Zoe said as she looked around. A huge branch, much larger than the one they’d hit on the path, had been blown off a tree and lay by the fence. Zoe tried to pick it up to put it in the wheelbarrow but it was too heavy. 8
Oscar reached his long trunk over the fence.
“Oh, thank you for helping!” Zoe exclaimed.
Oscar curled his trunk around the branch. Then he slowly lifted it off the ground and dropped it into the wheelbarrow. Meep squeaked and clapped his paws.
“Well done, Oscar!” Zoe cried.
Zoe set about picking up the leaves and twigs and soon the footpath was clear.
“Look at that puddle!” Meep cried, pointing with his tiny paw. “It’s as big as a swimming pool.” 9
Zoe laughed. “For you, maybe. I don’t think I could swim in it. But I could definitely splash in it!” She marched over to the puddle and jumped in, sending water flying everywhere.
Oscar waved his trunk wildly and trumpeted with laughter.
“Again! Again!” Meep cried.
Zoe took a few steps back and ran towards the puddle. She leapt into the air and came splashing down, sending even more water flying.
“Ow!” someone cried from behind her. At first Zoe thought it was Oscar. “Ow! Ow! Ow!” they cried again. Zoe turned to see Mr Pinch, the Rescue Zoo manager, hopping up and down, clutching his knee.
“Uh-oh!” Meep chirped, before hiding 10inside the wheelbarrow.
Uh-oh, thought Zoe. Mr Pinch was normally quite grumpy, but now he looked really angry. “Are you OK, Mr Pinch?” she asked.
“Atishoo!” he sneezed, still clutching his knee. “You careless girl!” he yelled. “You made me bang my knee.”
Oscar flapped his giant ears over his face as if he was too scared to watch. 11
“How?” Zoe asked. “I was over here splashing in this puddle.”
“Exactly,” Mr Pinch replied. “And I was worried you’d get dirty puddle water on my uniform so I had to jump back. I banged my knee on this wheelbarrow.”
Zoe’s heart sank. “I’m sorry,” she said. Then she had an idea. Mr Pinch liked everything to be neat and tidy. Maybe if she told him that she’d been cleaning up 12the path he wouldn’t be so cross.
“I’ve been helping tidy up the footpath. Look,” she said, pointing to the twigs and leaves in the wheelbarrow.
