Zester the Zebra and His Missing Stripes

In this first book of the Forever Zoo Friends Series, a Zebra named Zester wakes up one morning to find his black stripes are not on his body.  Worried, he sets out to find them.  He doesn't have much luck finding his stripes, until his friend, Happy the Hippo joins in the search.  Happy chooses not to give up on her friend Zester in trying to find his black stripes, because she knows Zester really misses his stripes.  And after all, a good friend is always there for you to help you out!  This is a cute little story about the value of a friendship.