Gorilla baby: The story of Patty Cake

by Pearl Wolf

Book Overview

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• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590757466
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Book to obsess over the rest of your life!

Gorilla Baby: The Story of Patty Cake is a simpley but not simplistically written picture book about the surprise birth of a gorilla baby to Congo and Lulu of the Central Park zoo in the 70's. It's a TRUE STORY told through clear text and startling black and white photographs. Lulu takes great care of Patty Cake and there is a picture of her holding the baby to her (...)and looking straight into the camera that will haunt you for the rest of your life. The baby learns to crawl and climb the bars, but P.C.'s dad accidentally breaks her arm when she's about 5 months old. She goes into the hospital for 3 months. More seething shots of P.C.'s little grimace as her arm is being put into a cast. But is then welcomed back into her gorilla family in a short, touching scene. At the end: a great shot through the bars at her first birthday not into the cage, but out of it at a throng of bell-bottomed kids with baloons loooking in at the gorilla family with unabashed awe. I love this book so frickin' much!!