Unreal and How To Move A Zoo
Sunday 28th July starting 2:00 pm
with special guests Leila Rudge, Kate Simpson and Owen Swan
There will be activities, prizes, live drawing, quizzes and truckloads of fun as we celebrate two brilliant books that merge non fiction with super storytelling!
How To Move a Zoo is the true story of how at the beginning of the 20th century Jessie the elephant walked from Moore Park Zoo to her spacious new home in the Taronga Zoological Park.
It was still dark when Mr Miller opened the gates of the old zoo, but he wasn’t scared because he wasn’t alone. He was with Jessie the elephant and together they were going to walk from Moore Park, through the city streets, to the ferry at Fort Macquarie. Jessie was moving to her spacious new home in the soon-to-be-opened Taronga Zoological Park. Jessie’s surprising journey was unlike any other and it brought a little warmth to the city on that brisk September morning in 1916.
In Unreal here’s been a mix-up at the Museum – some of the displays from the Myths and Legends exhibit have snuck into the Natural History wing.
We have to sort it out, but how can we tell fact from fiction? Animal from apparition? Megafauna from monster? Kids will have fun guessing which animals and plants are real and which are fake in this extraordinary exhibition of the strange and wonderful animals and plants that inhabit our world … and our imaginations. And a brilliant guide to help us know what to look for when tracking down truths.