He also imagines the praise he receives from others, who are amazed at his "new Zoo, McGrew Zoo". The illustrations also grow wilder as McGrew imagines going to increasingly remote and exotic habitats, capturing each fanciful creature, and bringing them all back to a zoo now filled with his new wild animals. Throughout the book he lists these creatures, starting with a lion with ten feet and escalating to more imaginative (and imaginary) creatures, such as the Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill, "the world's biggest bird from the island of Gwark, who eats only pine trees, and spits out the bark". He says that if he ran the zoo, he would set all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones. When young Gerald McGrew visits the zoo, he discovers that the exotic animals are "not good enough". The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seuss's usual verse type, and illustrated in Seuss's pen-and-ink style.
If I Ran the Zoo is a children's book written by Dr.
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