title: Zoe's Rescue Zoo: The Eager Elephant
author: Amelia Cobb
description: Amelia Cobb (Author) Amelia Cobb is sadly not a real person, although there is a real author behind the Zoe's Rescue Zoo stories. If Amelia did exist, we like to think that she'd live by the sea with her two goldfish, Flip and Flop, and write her stories at a small desk by the window, listening to the radio and wearing a brightly-coloured scarf at all times. Sophy Williams (Illustrator) Sophy Williams is an award-winning illustrator with twenty-five years experience illustrating children's books. While still studying, she twice won prizes in the Readers Digest Young Illustrator's competition and was runner up for the Mother Goose Award for her first picture book. She spent some of her childhood in exotic locations such as Singapore, Hong Kong and the Middle East and often finds her illustrations being influenced by these places. Her pictures are filled with atmosphere and drama created with soft pastels. She now lives by the Kennet and Avon canal in Bradford on Avon with her husband, author/illustrator MP Robertson, their two lanky teenage sons and a mischievous grey cat called Hamish. When not illustrating she sings and performs in a choir, grows fruit and veg on her allotment and drinks lots coffee with her friends.
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  Zoe gasped, her heart thudding in her chest. Bertie had waded even further
  into the lake – and now he was struggling to stay above the water. The little
  elephant was in big trouble…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Chapter One
  
  # Meep Gets into Mischief
  
  Zoe Parker wrinkled her nose and squeezed her eyes tightly shut. “Aaaa-chooo!”
  she sneezed as dust went up her nose. “Aaaa-chooo!”
  
  Zoe was raking up the minty-smelling leaves in the koala enclosure at the
  Rescue Zoo. All around her, tall green trees stretched up from the dusty,
  pebbly ground. Every time Zoe moved her rake, a small cloud of dust puffed
  into the air – and straight up her nose!
  
  
  As the branches above her head shook, Zoe glanced up. Perched in the tree was
  Matilda, one of the koalas. Zoe thought she was one of the cuddliest 