Challenge 12: A Book with a Lion, a Witch or a Wardrobe

Donna's Book: "Our Zoo" by June Mottershead (Headline, 2014)

I wanted to avoid the obvious choice for this challenge (although I did read the complete Narnia chronicles when I was young) and this is yet another of the books on my bookshelves that I've never got around to reading.  And there is a lion in it!

I love Chester Zoo, and the hour that I spent listening to June Mottershead talk about this book and her childhood memories was one of the best hours of my life!  Sadly, she is no longer with us but as long as there is this book, a part of her will go on and on!

Comments:

Although this ended rather abruptly, when June got married, I may have felt like that because I wanted the book to go on and on.  It was full of June's wonderful memories of Chester Zoo, how it started and grew and prospered.  The tone was often very matter-of-fact, like growing up in a zoo is something that everyone does!  But that just made the book more wonderful.  It makes you wonder why there was never another series of Our Zoo on TV, because there is a wealth of unused material in the book.  That alone makes this worth reading!