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Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet Greg. He's a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He's been the intimidating, yet sociable don of his posse of friends--including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, and Freddie Fredericks--but one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking Kevin starts to get ambitious and seeks a higher position within this social club. But this is no ordinary tale of gangland betrayal--Greg and his entourage are bull elephants in Etosha National Park,...
45) Poe won't go
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When an elephant plants himself in the road and refuses to move, the people of Persnickety try all sorts of methods to get him to go--but one thoughtful little girl works up the courage to do what no one else has done: ask him."--
46) Dumbo
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
49) Elephant's music
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to play an instrument, Edward the elephant resigns himself to being a good audience for the jungle band, but when he is running late for a concert one day, his musical talent is revealed.
51) Elephant's story
Author
Publisher
Boxer
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a young elephant calf as she grows up surrounded by her close family on the African savanna.
53) Ride, Otto, ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Otto and his friends go for a ride on an elephant.
57) Little Gray One
Author
Publisher
Tambourine Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Mother Elephant teaches her child to forage for food, bathe in the water, and play where it is safe.
58) Two travelers
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[1990]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The Emperor's messenger Isaac must accompany a gift elephant from Bagdad to France, and during the difficult journey an unexpected friendship develops between man and beast.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares stories and facts that reveal the real-life survival challenges that have caused elephants to become endangered, and provides information about what kids can do to support conservation efforts.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe...
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