March is Reading Month!

Making reading wildly fun! This unique Travel Zoo will bring a zoo educator into your classroom to read a selected book and then share one of the zoo's ambassador animals with your students. This program is meant for individual classes so that students can experience an up-close encounter with an animal. Please indicate your top two choices of books when submitting your registration form. The zoo will supply the book and one ambassador animal matched as closely to the animal(s) featured in the book as possible. Program lengths vary depending on book and age of students but are typically 25-45 minutes. We are able to facilitate this program either in person at your facility or virtually.

2022 Pricing: Program fees are $60 per program and $30 for each additional, consecutive program on the same day, plus an additional $1.00 per mile travel fee (includes mileage and staffing cost) for programs that are held in person.

COVID-19 Guidelines: John Ball Zoo requires all program participants to wear a mask indoors while onsite at the zoo. When visiting your school/organization, participants are asked to follow any/all guidelines set by the facility. John Ball Zoo staff will be following guidelines set forth by the zoo in regards to their own masking and social distancing. Guidelines may be in place for specific ambassador animals that require social distancing and/or masking, if so, zoo staff will share these ahead of time.      

For questions please contact us at 616-336-4302

*if owls are unavailable, other raptors may be used in their place