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By (author) Cobb Amelia; Illustrated by Williams Sophy

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When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum, the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. But that”s a secret!

Puffins are Zoe”s favourite ever animal, so when Piper arrives at the Rescue Zoo, Zoe is very happy to help her settle in.

When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum, the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. Zoe”s very good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to them, too. But that”s a secret!

Puffins are Zoe”s favourite ever animal, so when Piper arrives at the Rescue Zoo, Zoe is very happy to help her settle in. But Piper is very picky! She doesn”t like her enclosure … or her burrow … or even her food! Can Zoe and Meep work out what is making Piper the puffin so picky, and come up with a plan to make the little puffin feel happy in her new home?

Biographical note:

Amelia Cobb (Author)
Amelia Cobb is sadly not a real person, although there is a real author behind the Zoe”s Rescue Zoo stories. If Amelia did exist, we like to think that she”d live by the sea with her two goldfish, Flip and Flop, and write her stories at a small desk by the window, listening to the radio and wearing a brightly-coloured scarf at all times.

Sophy Williams (Illustrator)
Sophy Williams is an award-winning illustrator with twenty-five years experience illustrating children”s books. While still studying, she twice won prizes in the Readers Digest Young Illustrator”s competition and was runner up for the Mother Goose Award for her first picture book. She spent some of her childhood in exotic locations such as Singapore, Hong Kong and the Middle East and often finds her illustrations being influenced by these places. Her pictures are filled with atmosphere and drama created with soft pastels. She now lives by the Kennet and Avon canal in Bradford on Avon with her husband, author/illustrator MP Robertson, their two lanky teenage sons and a mischievous grey cat called Hamish. When not illustrating she sings and performs in a choir, grows fruit and veg on her allotment and drinks lots coffee with her friends.

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At Zoe”s Rescue Zoo only the cutest, cuddliest animals need apply!