Craig Hatkoff

A young girl describes what happens when she goes to the hospital to have her tonsils removed.

This is the story of two great friends: a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-year-old giant tortoise named Mzee.

When Leo was less than seven weeks old, he became orphaned in the snowy Himalayan mountains in Pakistan. Rescued by a kind shepherd and his family, Leo eventually came to the world-famous Bronx Zoo in New York, the leading experts on caring for and breeding the critically endangered snow leopard.