Elephants Books

My son love Elmer and I love the content, therefore we all enjoy lot when I read this book to him.

This is a great book for ages 1 onwards. Not much text so good for little ones who can't keep still. Each page has about one sentence. I would have liked one with a bit more text as my daughter is 2 now, or I should have bought it a year earlier! But she still loved the book. It has a nice surprise at the end where a mirror shows your child's face. Not a very long book. Won't keep 2 year olds mesmerised for long though. Some of the other Elmer books have more text if I remember rightly.
Nice pictures and very colourful and fun as you might have guessed from the cover.

This is a wonderful story for preschoolers who are first entering. My preschool class loved it. One of my children ripped the cover and I had to purchase another one for the new schoolyear.

Wonderful Encyclopedia of Elephant Collectibles!
I have finally found a book exclusively for elephant collectibles This one is FANTASTIC! Over 1000 color images in 140 categories! I no longer have to wade through scrores of books to find one or two elephant collectibles I have. Virtually all the elephants have the basic information I am looking for (maker, size, value etc.) and many have much more. The index and resources sections are chock full of places, makers and artists so you canto find out more info. I understand Volume 2 is underway and I cannot wait for it.

I have looked for an elephant collectibles book for years and never found one. Now at last there is one for all collectors to enjoy. And this one is GREAT. Over 1000 color images in every category! With enough information about the vast majority to get a good idea of what is out there to collect and who made it. Some items have a great deal of historical information. The resources section is full of people, places, artists and websites to find out more info. Can't wait for volume 2! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Wonderful Encyclopedia of Elephant Collectibles!
I have finally found a book exclusively for elephant collectibles This one is FANTASTIC! Over 1000 color images in 140 categories! I no longer have to wade through scrores of books to find one or two elephant collectibles I have. Virtually all the elephants have the basic information I am looking for (maker, size, value etc.) and many have much more. The index and resources sections are chock full of places, makers and artists so you canto find out more info. I understand Volume 2 is underway and I cannot wait for it.

This was absolutely the perfect gift for my roommate who is moving. We kept a shared list of phone numbers and needed to duplicate it for one or the other of us. She loves fairies, and this address book has a beautiful illustration on each page. The spiral binding is especially convenient. It can fit in a pretty large purse, but this is an easy reference for under the phone or in a nearby drawer.

I needed a replacement and couldn't resist the faeries. I figured it would just have a lovely cover, but every page that separates the letters of the alphabet is covered with beautiful artwork depicting faeries. I absolutely love the address book. The pages are also large and each entry slot contains plenty of room for various phone numbers, including mobiles.

If you adore the land of fae, this is indeed a wonderful address book to buy. It has many different paintings by faery artists!

Hachette has republished l'Histoire de Babar in hardback. This has a new cover (not the red with Babar holding the sign with the title on it). The new cover features Babar driving his car. The illustrations and original Brunhoff French text in cursive script are still there. I will take this wonderful tale in any cover I can find, thank you very much.

In this book, the first in the Babar series, we hear the tale of the experiences that shaped the the young and adventurous Babar during his formative years, culminating with his being crowned King of the Elephants.

The Babar books contain some of the most charming and entertaining drawings and storylines of any children's books ever written. Proof is that as one grows older, their appeal seems to grow rather than diminish. Although great in any language, Babar is best of all in its original French. The text is simple enough that even those with only a modest French reading level should be able to enjoy this book.

C'est la première histoire de Babar. La maman de Babar est tuée par un vilain chasseur, et Babar se sauve. Mon enfant pleure quand il vois Babar pleure a la fenêtre de la vielle dame, mais c'est la vie; notre chien vient de mourir, et je lui dit, "Oui, sa mere est morte comme Diggy est morte."

We have dozens and dozens of kids books around the house, but this is one of the few that our daughter (2 years old) constantly picks from the shelf to read. She enjoys finding the elephants, and counting the different things on each page. The story is fun and easy to follow, and the illustrations seem to draw her back agani and again.

I would highly recommend this book.

As a grandmother, I was delighted to find this fun and imaginative approach to learning how to count coupled with something to open on every page revealing surprises galore. The writing style is simple for preschool children to understand and the drawings clearly illuminate the counting principles. This will be a favorite gift this year for my young grandchildren!

How Many Elephants?: A Lift-The-Flap Counting Book, written by Selby Beeler and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg, is both amusing and educational.

The book begins with a search for elephants in a child's bedroom closet. During the silly game of hide-and-seek, readers discover and count a variety of ordinary objects. Counting from 0 - 10, readers will develop their counting skills without even realizing they're learning; they will think they're just enjoying the story and its fun, simple illustrations. Of course, readers are rewarded for all their hard work with a great surprise at the end.

The construction of the book is well done. The thin posterboard pages and flaps are strong and hold up to repeated openings by very enthusiastic youngsters.

Whether you are looking for a book to help your children learn to count or to simply entertain them, How Many Elephants?: A Lift-The-Flap Counting Book is an excellent choice!

This book was introduced to me at my workplace as my team was being formed. Not only has it made me aware of the elephants that are lurking, but I believe it helped prevent others from making it through the door.

The book is written in such a way that everyone in business can relate - bosses, assistants, employees, managers - everyone! I love how the author addresses serious issues in a humourous way. It is almost like she has been right next door to me for years!

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for insight and solutions to their business' elephants!

I think that this book is very applicable to real life work situations. After reading the scenarios, I could recall similar experiences that I encountered at work. This book helped me to see those situations from my boss's perspective. It also helped me to understand how to respond more successfully when I encounter such situations in the future. I think that Margaret must have been hiding in our office -- she knows what really goes on in the workplace!

Is There An Elephant In The Copy Room? is a wonderful look at life in the workplace. It is written in a simple to read and easy to relate to format. With each senario that I read I found myself thinking "I've been through that" or "I know that person". This book offers great insight as to what all parties are thinking in certain situations and also provides reasonable solutions to the challenges we face in the workplace. As a person who has been in top management and dealt with a number of personnel issues and someone that is currently in the job market I found the different perspectives very enlightening. I highly recommend this book.

A very delightful work. The authors style truly brings to life the drama of the era. The story is very enlightning and brings the details of the era to light and makes the reader feel like they are there. Very poignant and realistic storytelling.

Reading this book allowed me to understand what it must have been like for those in Europe to be under the eye of the Third Reich. It also allowed me to see Wales from a childs point of view, and as my great grandparents are from there it let me step into thier shoes for a little while. Margaret brings the places and the times alive with all the saddness and horror of war and the simple everyday people that lived thru those times. It was almost like reading a young mans war letters home and his sisters diary of the time. It was a pleasure.

I recommend this wonderful book. It is what I call
a rainy day .. hot chocolate book. A heart warmer
that took me to another place and time..
Its characters came to life for me. It goes to show
that a wonderful story told by an immensley talented writer..
is still the way to an avid readers heart. Wonderful!
MBrassard

Beautiful poetic verses accompanied by lovely illistration are even more meaningful when taken in the context of the real life Jumbo's possible memories. My daughter rechecked this library book again and again. Soon to be 8, I'm sure she will enjoy it just as much when I buy it fo her new baby brother. However this lullaby is worthy of much more elaborate illistrations.

This is an excellent bedtime book to read to a young child. We started reading it to our daughter when she was first born. Now at age 16 months, it is her favorite book.

The pictures are vibrant and sweet. But my favorite part of the book is the cadance of the text....it just flows off the tongue and thus is a joy to read. We have basically memorized it from reading it so much. So now we can recant it to our daughter even when we don't have the book. This is a great benefit when travelling, since the familiar words lull our daughter to sleep.

Can't recommend it highly enough!

This is my two-year old's very favorite book. The illustrations are beautiful and the story is very creative. The author tells of the dreams of various animals. A hippo dreams of being a butterfly. Zebras dream of being painted in bright colors. I definitely recommend it, especially for animal-loving children.

Jumbo was an African elephant born in the early 1860s and captured by ivory poachers who had killed his parents. They sold him to the Paris Zoo, and after a few years Jumbo was sold again to the London Zoo.

The Superintendent there, Abraham Bartlett, assigned a long-time employee, Matthew Scott, to be Jumbo's keeper. Jumbo soon became ill (colic?), and Scott endeared himself to Jumbo by moving in with Jumbo until the elephant recovered. Scott's treatment - TLC and whiskey.

Jumbo became a zoo favorite for giving children rides and his quirky behavior. (Jumbo would steal Scott's bowler hat when Scott wasn't looking, and return it after Scott pretended to be outraged. Jumbo would also steal and beg treats from those visiting his enclosure.) Scott was allowed to keep the children's' payments (penny each), resulting in an additional 10X his salary. Bartlett tried to regain control over Jumbo by requiring Scott take an assistant - each, however, quickly resigned in fear of Jumbo (possibly encouraged by Scott).

Upon reaching sexual maturity (age 20), Jumbo began rampaging at night, eventually destroying the Elephant House. This phase passed after about a month, but worried about a recurrence, Bartlett welcomed an offer from P.T. Barnum to take both Jumbo and the always obnoxious (to superiors, never the children) Scott.

Jumbo, however, did not like the idea of leaving his London Zoo home of 16 years, and it took several weeks to coax him into a transport box. During this time thousands of extra visitors came to the zoo to watch, and boo the "greedy zoo managers." P.T. Barnum, meanwhile, used the extra time to build excitement in America with various tales about what was happening.

Within two weeks Jumbo was participating in the circus, and as the largest, walked at the head of the parade. Unfortunately, being a circus elephant required traveling, which Jumbo disliked. Worse yet, it soon resulted in his death in a train collision.

Scott remained loyal to Jumbo, hanging around unpaid in the area where Jumbo's stuffed body was displayed. After the museum burned, Scott disappeared.

"JUMBO"The Greatest Elephant In the World; by Paul Chambers is truly a JUMBO piece of literature in a small book.

This is the true and sad biography of the world's most publicized elephant and those individuals who shared in his life. Mr. Chambers' has gvien the reader a superb history of a unique elephant, a unique time, and the unique men who shared in that long forgotten drama.

This story somewhat parallels "Modoc" and yet, differs greatly. None the less, man's cruelty ceases to amaze me. In the interim, the reader not only learns a great deal about elephants and suffering but...him/herself as well. Despite the fact, JUMBO has been dead now for 123 years (at this writing), I could not help but become emotional as I read his life's story and his sad end.

JUMBO's skeletal remains have been perserved but gone the way of Gargantua the gorilla...lost in the dark and dusty confines of a musem. A testament to times long since forgotten.

A truly intersting and informative book and a real JUMBO of a story!

If, you appreciate wildlife, zoos, animals and or...history then you MUST READ THIS BOOK!

Perhaps you have flown on a jumbo jet, and certainly you have seen jumbo sized bags of corn chips. "Jumbo" is even an official designation for a particular size of olive, among other things. Of course, these are big olives, and "jumbo" means big, but you might not realize that it is an eponym, a word taken from a name. It comes from Jumbo the elephant, but how Jumbo got that name isn't recorded; other elephants at the London Zoo were called, say, Tommy or Jack. Jumbo did not get his name because he was big (he got it long before he grew big), but "jumbo" came to mean big because Jumbo became big. In _Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World_ (Steerforth Press), Paul Chambers has produced a delightful biography of what really was, for many reasons, the greatest elephant in the world. It is in many ways a sad story, with human greed and folly taking their toll on the poor pachyderm, who lost his life directly because of his fame. Jumbo's is, however, a unique story, in which are remarkable, flawed men, only some of whom had his best interest at heart.

Jumbo was far from jumbo when his mother was killed and he was captured; he was a scrawny runt, and it would have surprised no one if he had died on his caravan of rhinos, giraffes, antelopes, and more heading to the Red Sea. After a sea voyage and transfer within Europe, the little elephant was bought by the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The French never appreciated their acquisition, and the Superintendent of the London Zoo, Abraham Bartlett was eager to get Jumbo when the French zoo was selling off extra animals. Bartlett also hand picked a handler for the elephant, the keeper Matthew Scott, because although Scott had worked wonders with parrots and elands, he had no experience with elephants and Bartlett was sure that Scott could thus be made to take charge of Jumbo in just the manner Bartlett wanted. Bartlett's thinking on the issue was completely wrong. Scott was to become inseparable from Jumbo, and was to use his connection with the elephant to become more influential and rich than the London Zoo ever intended any zookeeper to be. He was continually to annoy Bartlett who could not transfer him or dismiss him because he had such close control of Jumbo. The increasing influence of Scott, and the difficulty of maintaining such a huge and sometimes unrestrained beast at the zoo, bothered Bartlett, who was glad to get rid of the pair when P. T. Barnum offered to buy Jumbo. The elephant was a sensation, attracting huge crowds when he landed and went on procession to the site of Barnum's circus at Madison Square Garden. Barnum forbade any measurements to be made of Jumbo, aware that the press and public would happily exaggerate his size. Jumbo was well worth any expense or trouble Barnum had undertaken; attendance at the circus was never better, and Jumbo took to circus life well. He was, however, to be with the circus only four years; a collision with an unscheduled train in Ontario killed him. Barnum not only arranged for his body to be mounted and put on display (where it was still a draw), but started the story that brave Jumbo had lost his life while heroically protecting the circus's dwarf elephant from that oncoming train.

Scott was bereft. He was let go from the circus, but continued hanging around aimlessly for a while; no one knows what became of him. Jumbo's stuffed hide was in a museum for decades before the museum burned to the ground in 1975, and his skeleton is in storage vaults of the American Museum of Natural History, where people still ask about it. Jumbo's legacy does not just include his named used as a word, as elements of his story were included in a children's book in 1939, _Dumbo_, which had a small print run until Walt Disney got hold of it. Chambers has told Jumbo's story with affection and detail, giving us a good idea of the character of the big elephant, but also of the characters around him that turned him into a world-renowned star.

This was a lovely story. I thought the names would be hard to pronounce but there is a pronunciation guide in the back that helps with the lyrical names. Like all great Dr. Seuss books, this story has a mini-moral to impart�this one about self-esteem and helping others. The illustrations are sublime�finely lined and beautifully colored. It is cleanly laid out with nice big text. Fortunately the book is small enough to cart-around�it is my son�s favorite and he likes to take it everywhere. Apparently this was written and illustrated by a father and son�I look forward to their next collaboration. According to the insert in the back, libraries are able to obtain free copies for their stacks. I am ordering one for my local library.

What a great story. I have read it again and again with my 4-year old nephew. I loved being able to read a story with him that would also teach him about other cultures and other parts of the world. The incredible illustrations brought the characters to life. You'll love it, too.

I really enjoyed this little fable, and so did my three-year old. The artwork was very impressive.