Zooman Sam is a young adult novel by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s...

. It is part of a series that Lowry wrote about Anastasia and her younger bother Sam.

Plot summary

It's Future Job Day at Sam's nursery school, and Sam, who has zookeeping aspirations, is thrilled when his teacher says he can tell the other children about a series of zoo animals: "For six weeks he could stand in front of the circle and feel that feeling of being the most interesting person in the room."

As always, the patient and loving Krupnik family stands by as Anastasia's irrepressible little brother struggles with a set of almost impossible goals.

Review

"In this fourth book about Anastasia's spunky little brother, Sam Krupnik really comes into his own....Lowry gets everything about Sam just right."

• Booklist. Boxed Review

External links

• http://www.loislowry.com/zooman.html Description of the book from Lowry's website.
• Lowry's website
• Complete list of books by Lowry