A lunar landscape is the setting for a very special zoo where elephants' "trunks are telescopes probing space, pointing up at the Earth's blue face" and baboons "jump twenty feet into outer space and flash their bottoms at the human race!"
The moon tiger scratches at shooting stars, polar bears float down from their mountain for starfish and salad, and the zookeeper, of course, is an alien, complete with eight bright green hands. Lyrical, humorous verses illuminate an entrancing world that is both familiar and strange, while soft-toned, wonderfully strange illustrations capture the eerie beauty of the moon zoo.