Lantana, Florida

The animals already have personalities. We just drew them.

A picture book that answers back, a roster of real animals turned into 3-D caricatures, and a lesson that starts with a card you can tap.

Read the book Meet the animals

Three ways in

One front door. Everything behind it.

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

Version two

Three 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 artwork

A 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

In the works

A caricature of Liz leaning over a wooden desk, pointing at a row of illustrated animal cards.

The Show

Tap a card, the animal wakes up, Liz introduces it — and then the real animal and a real fact follow. Caricature to hook them, the real thing to teach them.

How it works

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

A giraffe will absolutely take a popsicle out of your hand.

Every animal here is one Liz actually works with. The caricatures are drawn from that roster, one scene at a time.

New artwork

The whole roster, drawn.

Glossy 3-D render, warm golden hour, Liz in every frame. Rounded, big-eyed, friendly — never frightening, even the alligator.

Caricature of Liz and Kristen at a safari lodge counter, with a macaw, white tiger, giraffe and flamingo framed in the windows behind. — **The lodge**Macaw · white tiger · giraffe · flamingo

Caricature of Liz waving beside a white tiger, a yawning Bengal tiger and a white lion. — **Big cats**White 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. — **Birds**Macaws · 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 exotics**Capuchin · 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. — **Reptiles**Burmese 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 animals**Giraffe · zebra · elephant · camels

Caricature of Liz crouching in a petting paddock surrounded by sheep, goats and miniature horses. — **The petting paddock**Sheep · goats · miniature horses

These are the first pass. Same approved lodge style, one scene per group. If you have caricatures already started, they drop straight in — the layout takes them as-is.

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

In the works

The lesson is a card on a desk.

Tap one and the matching animal in the window comes alive. Liz introduces it as the caricature, and then real Liz and a real photograph take over with the actual fact. Caricature to hook them, the real thing to teach them.

See the card deck

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, and four moving plates. What's next: one card per animal, the real photograph behind each one, and Liz's voice on the intros.