Liz's Safari

Lantana, Florida

Wild wonders.
Wonderful discoveries.

Meet Liz’s illustrated animal world. Read Nemur’s story, explore the animal cards, and turn curiosity into a hands-on discovery.

Read the book Meet the animals

Three ways in

Read. Discover. Explore.

The book is finished and readable right now. The zoo is drawn. The show is the part being built on top of both.

Version twoThree of Nemur's lemur dollies sitting in a row on a shelf, with Nemur looking up at them from below.

Nemur's Conspiracy

The read-along picture book, narrated end to end. In this version the dollies wake up when you tap them — but only when the grown-ups are gone.

Open the book
New artworkA caricature of Liz waving beside a white tiger, a yawning Bengal tiger and a white lion framed in lodge windows.

The Zoo

Every animal on the roster, drawn as a 3-D caricature with Liz in the frame. Birds, big cats, reptiles, hoofstock, and the whole petting paddock.

See the roster
21 cardsA caricature of Liz leaning over a wooden desk, pointing at a row of illustrated animal cards.

The Show

Tap a card and the lesson opens: three things that are true, a question you answer before you are allowed to see the answer, and something to go and do. Written three times over, for K–2, 3–5 and 6–8.

Open the desk

The book · version two

The dollies wake up.

Elizabeth Felton wrote it about her own lemur. Giavanna Loya painted it. Every page is read aloud, and the words never changed.

Seven of Nemur's dollies are hidden across four spreads. Tap one and it bounces, glows, and moos. A counter keeps score. Wake all seven and the whole conspiracy moos together.

It listens to the story instead of talking over it. On the pages where a grown-up is in the frame, a tap gets a whisper — not while the grown-ups are looking. On the last two pages, after the goodbye, the dollies don't answer at all.

Read the book Have it read to you
Nemur the lemur holding her lemur dollies in a warm hug, from the last page of the book.

The zoo

Every animal has a story.

Explore Liz’s animal roster through illustrated scenes, observation questions and lessons made for curious minds.

Illustrated wildlife · review artwork

Meet the safari cast.

Warm, illustrated adventures with Liz and Lilly. Meet the birds, big cats, reptiles and safari animals, then explore their cards and lessons.

Caricature of Liz and Lilly at a safari lodge counter, with a macaw, white tiger, giraffe and flamingo framed in the windows behind.
The lodgeMacaw · white tiger · giraffe · flamingo
Caricature of Liz waving beside a white tiger, a yawning Bengal tiger and a white lion.
Big catsWhite tiger · Bengal tiger · white lion
Caricature of Liz with a scarlet macaw on her arm, a blue-and-gold macaw in flight, an umbrella cockatoo, a barn owl and flamingos.
BirdsMacaws · cockatoo · barn owl · flamingos
Caricature of Liz laughing with a capuchin monkey on her shoulder, a kinkajou and a fennec fox beside her.
Primates & small exoticsCapuchin · kinkajou · fennec fox
Caricature of Liz holding an albino Burmese python on a boardwalk, with a second python on the rail and a grinning alligator in the water.
ReptilesBurmese pythons · American alligator
Caricature of Liz feeding a popsicle to a giraffe, with a zebra, a painted elephant and two camels around her.
Hoofstock & large animalsGiraffe · zebra · elephant · camels
Caricature of Liz crouching in a petting paddock surrounded by sheep, goats and miniature horses.
The petting paddockSheep · goats · miniature horses
Artwork for review. These existing 3-D caricature scenes follow the established lodge direction. They are separate from Giavanna Loya’s published book illustrations, which remain unchanged. Liz’s approval is still needed for the final character likenesses and scene selection.

Every one of them

Nineteen kinds of animal, and a goat that will eat your shirt.

The roster

Who's actually here.

Birds

  • Scarlet and green-winged macaws
  • Blue-and-gold macaws
  • Umbrella cockatoo
  • Barn owl
  • Flamingos

Primates & small exotics

  • Capuchin monkey
  • Kinkajou
  • Fennec fox
  • Ring-tailed lemurs — Nemur and Bindy

Reptiles

  • American alligator
  • Burmese python, normal phase
  • Burmese python, albino phase

Big cats

  • White tiger
  • Bengal tiger
  • White lion

Hoofstock & large animals

  • Zebra
  • Giraffe
  • Asian elephant
  • Camels, tan and white
  • Miniature horses and a white horse

The petting paddock

  • Sheep
  • Goats
  • Miniature horses

Built and open

The lesson is a card on a desk.

Choose an illustrated animal to explore its lesson. Each lesson includes age-specific facts, observation questions and an activity. Real animal photographs and recorded introductions from Liz are still being prepared.

Two ways in, and they do different jobs. The card deck is the thing you hand a child: a drawn face on the front, a sourced fact on the back, tap to flip. The lessons take the same animals further — three age bands, a question whose answer stays hidden until you have written your own, and a teacher's sheet that prints.

See the card deck Open the lessons
Caricature of Liz leaning over a wooden desk, pointing at a row of illustrated animal cards next to a globe and binoculars.

Why both faces

Kids trust a real face, then follow a drawn one anywhere.

So the show uses both. Real Liz does the greeting and the here is the actual animal moments. The caricature does the story and the silly parts.

What's built already: the animal roster, the caricature scenes above, four moving plates, and the desk itself — twenty-one cards, three age bands each, and a teacher's sheet that prints. What's next: the real photograph behind each card, and Liz's voice on the intros. Every card names the photograph it is waiting for.