If I ran the zoo - Dr Seuss

If I Ran the Zoo welcomes young readers to the amazing world of Gerald McGrew who has some wild ideas for perking up his local zoo. Having let the existing animals go, he'd start all over again, creating a madcap menagerie of weird and wonderful creatures taken from every corner of the globe.

His New Zoo, McGrew Zoo would be "better than Noah's whole Ark", with an amazing array of beasts, ranging from the incredible Thwerll, whose legs are snarled up in a terrible snerl, to the family of Joats, whose feet are like cows' but wear squirrel-skin coats!