Cubs in the Tub

Fred and Helen Martini longed for a baby, and they ended up with dozens of lion and tiger cubs!

Snuggle up to this purr-fect read aloud about the Bronx Zoo's first female zookeeper.

When Bronx zookeeper Fred brought home a lion cub, Helen Martini instantly embraced it. The cub's mother had lost the instinct to care for him. "Just do for him what you would do with a human baby," Fred suggested...and she did. Helen named him MacArthur, fed him milk from a bottle, and cooed him to sleep in a crib.

Soon enough, MacArthur was not the only cub bathing in the tub! The couple continued to raise lion and tiger cubs as their own, until they were old enough to… Keep Reading