UPDATE (May 2): This event has been moved to the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center due to a poor weather forecast for the evening of the event.

Elephants are Chelsea Clinton's favorite animal — so it's only fitting that they close out her newest chidren's book, "Don't Let Them Disappear."

The colorful and educational read is filled with information on 12 different endangered species, interesting factoids about each, and explains how they became endangered species. Some of the other animals featured include polar bears, giraffes and sea otters.

Clinton will be at the Little Rock Zoo on May 3 for a Q&A and book signing, where she says she's most looking forward to answering kids' questions.

Before that happens, we had a chance to chat with Clinton and ask her some questions of our own about "Don't Let Them Disappear" as well as her Little Rock roots.

Little Rock Family: What inspired you to write “Don’t Let Them Disappear”?

Chelsea Clinton: What inspired me, really, was hearing from kids about how much they love animals. I’ve talked to kids for some of my other books including “Start Now,” which came out last year and really focused on young kids making a difference in issues that they cared about. Over and over again I heard from kids that the number one issue for them, often, is animals. Sometimes it’s animals in their own communities … and sometimes really endangered species across the globe. So that really inspired me and motivated me to write the book to inform kids about some endangered species and hopefully empower kids about what they could do to try to save them.

I also have to say, I really wish I’d had a book like this when I was a kid. I loved elephants and really felt so drawn to endangered species and as a little girl in Little Rock I wanted to know what I could do to make a difference in these areas. So I also wrote the book not just for kids today, but for the kid I once was.

LRF: What memories will coming to the Little Rock Zoo bring back?

CC: I went to the zoo a lot as a kid with my parents and my grandparents! I really have a particularly special place in my heart for Chelsea the orangutan who lives at the Little Rock Zoo because she was the first Chelsea that I met, and so for a brief moment I was convinced I had been named after her. When we went in kindergarten — I wasn’t great at math yet but I knew that 1975 when Chelsea the orangutan had been born was before I was born. So I thought my parents had named me after the orangutan. I went home and asked them and they reassured me that I had not been named after the orangutan but I kind of thought that would have been cool if they had been inspired by her.

LRF: How have your kids responded to the book?

CC: My daughter who is four and a half, Charlotte, thankfully loves the book and we’ve already read it a lot. She really loves the fun factoids about the animals that she’s learned - that a single giraffe kick can kill a lion or that the tiger stripes are individual to that tiger or that sea otters wash their paws after every meal. Her favorite part is always the whale sharks because sharks are her favorite animal.

My son, Aidan, who’s two and a half, can’t really make it through the whole book yet, but we’ll make it through a few of the different pages and then he’ll start pretending to be one of the animals and start running around roaring or stomping or pretending that he’s a whale.

LRF: What are your favorite places to get outdoors and see wildlife in Arkansas?

CC: I went to Pinnacle Mountain a lot when I was a kid and we had lots of great hiking adventures. I was a brownie when I was little and have so many wonderful memories of various camping trips and outdoor explorations. And I’m really thankful that my parents and grandparents supported and encouraged that — in formal ways like my local brownie troop and just through fun activities we’d do together. There’s so much beautiful nature in central Arkansas around Little Rock and in the Ozarks and I hope people take advantage of it the way I was lucky enough to.

Clinton's event will be held at the Civitan Amphitheater at the Little Rock Zoo with first-come-first serve seating. The amphitheater will open for seating at 4:45 p.m. and ticket holders may enter the zoo at any time that day and enjoy the zoo before the event. For more information or to purchase tickets, click here.