Wild elephant families are special and unique and this juvenile non-fiction book, “An Elephant Grows Up by Anastasia Suen,” does a fine job portraying them in such a light. The illustrators, Michael L. Denman and William J. Huiett, definitely enhance the story with their artistic renderings of the elephants. While not including the entire life … Continue reading »
Sometimes the smallest changes can make the biggest differences in the world. Take the two elephants from the children’s book Marcelin and Marcy For a Cleaner World. When they discover the dire situation their wildlife friends (ocean life & those living on land) are in (including their own species, the elephants) they want to pitch … Continue reading »
So the Elephant’s Child went home across Africa frisking and whisking his trunk. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a tree, instead of waiting for it to fall as he used to do. When he wanted grass he plucked grass up from the ground, instead of going on his knees … Continue reading »
“‘Come hither, Little One,’ said the Crocodile, ‘for I am the Crocodile,’ and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true. Then the Elephant’s Child grew all breathless, and panted, and kneeled down on the bank and said, ‘You are the very person I have been looking for all these long days. Will you … Continue reading »
THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD by Rudyard Kipling “IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant—a new … Continue reading »
#elephants #elephant #elephantillustrations #Childrensbooks #childrenspicturebooks #ILoveElephants If you haven’t met Elmer the elephant then you’d best get acquainted with him now for there are quite a few books in the series to keep you entertained. Elmer by David McKee is book 1 and was actually first published in the UK in 1968. Elmer is one … Continue reading »
