Animal Crackers

Animal CrackersBy: Hannah Tinti A zoo worker, cautiously washing down Marysue the elephant, considers the strange, grim fragments he's heard of his co workers' lives. Giraffes demand better living conditions and stage a mock group suicide. A girl escapes her repressive finishing school to find freedom with the monkeys in the African jungle. Snake or dog, buffalo, cat or turkey, each animal in Hannah Tinti's brilliant, darkly comic collection holds up a disturbing

and why their toilets always smelled so bad

under the guidance of an angel

With sparkling intelligence and rapier wit

step-by-step guide for what to shred

the only princess of Kiata

By: Laila Lalami     A New York Times Editors' Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time

in essence

and entertaining

An intriguing doubleness marks The Reason You Walk

this time in an original board book where young ones can count the never-ending party guests

”—The Washington Post • An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel • A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time • The Inspiration for the HBO Original Series His Dark Materials

and it makes for a satisfying and entertaining read