By Amy Dee Stephens, Arcadia Press, 2006
Review: Everybody loves animals and stories and picture books, so what’s not to like about Oklahoma City Zoo: 1902–1959? Zoo naturalist educator, Amy Dee Stephens, has put together a delightful collection of stories and pictures about some of the zoo’s most colorful creatures. Her project began as an attempt to uncover information about the zoo’s past for use in publicizing the zoo’s centennial. Soon a dozen or more docents were involved in searching old newspapers, the archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society and antique stores.
The research began to reveal a quaint and colorful array of unlikely stories of animals gone AWOL, animals purchased with pennies, and animals given as gifts. Children and other animal lovers were an important part of the menagerie, participating in the rescue, selection, purchase, and naming of some of the zoo’s most famous citizens.
Selected as an Oklahoma Centennial Project, Oklahoma City Zoo: 1902–1959, will take you back to those years when a trip to the zoo was considered wildly exciting entertainment.
– P. Davidson, Amazon.com, October, 2007
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