Elephants Books

I watched this Film the other day and I am still in Shock. It was an absolute breath of Fresh Air. The whole concept of this film is wonderful and very pleasing to eyes.

Recommended 100% ++++++++++++++++++

My son like the elephants very much. This is one of the best elephant
books he ever read. it is very suitable for 4-8 years child

What a delight to find a book on the Amazon site that concerns the professional
baseball life of my cherished Granduncle, Connie Mack. Allowing for personal
prejudice for this beloved gentleman, we enjoyed the book. More, it was my
pleasure to have been in his company on many occasions every summer when the
A's played the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Please read this book and enjoy this notable period in baseball history which is now, sadly, lost to us forever.
This is a book for those who love the history of baseball.

Let us say the Book Fairy comes and says you can be given one book, any book you want. Here's my advice: take John James Audubon's _The Birds of America_. Of course you want the original edition, the volumes that appeared between 1826 and 1838. Not only is it one of the most beautiful books ever printed, if you get tired of it, you can sell it. The last one that came up for sale, in 2000, went for $8.8 million. Just about everyone knows about this book, or has seen reprints from it, and has heard of Audubon (perhaps because of the Society that bears his name) and associates him with birds. He has had several biographies, but _Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America_ (Henry Holt) by Duff Hart-Davis takes a specific look at the extraordinary book, and how _The Birds of America_ could not have been made in America.

Audubon's own adopted country had no room for his huge project of a book to show all the birds of America life sized. Naturalists at the time actively discouraged anyone's support of Audubon's efforts, and there were not printers up to the task. So in 1826, Audubon sailed with his big watercolors to England. He became a celebrated American rustic, captivating the town of Edinburgh. He went about carrying his huge portfolio which weighed nearly a hundred pounds, slung over his shoulder. The first printer of the work, having see it, responded, "My God! I never saw anything like this before." He was right; Audubon's pictures had size, drama, and color no previous bird pictures even hinted at. The pictures caused a sensation, and Audubon was caught in a whirl of dining and socializing that he enjoyed enormously. The enormous work of getting subscribers, printing the pictures, and getting a team of colorists to hand tint each one was more than Audubon had counted on. He wrote, "I am thrown into a vortex of business that I never conceived I could manage."

Audubon and conservation have become synonymous, but his process of making his art will appall those many who belong to the Society bearing his name. Audubon probably killed more birds than any man in history, saying, "I call birds few when I shoot less than one hundred per day." He liked painting birds in action, but he posed them that way, killing them and mounting them so he could get the action stilled. A companion complained about Audubon working on his turkey painting, "The damned fellow kept it pinned up there till it rotted and stunk. I hated to lose so much good eating." Audubon kept a golden eagle in a cage to observe it, and having it seen alive sufficiently, tried to suffocate it with charcoal smoke, and when that did not work, pierced it through the heart with a pointed steel needle. As Hart-Davis realizes, Audubon did not lust for blood, but for knowledge. Imparting that knowledge through his art was his great goal, magnificently realized. _Audubon's Elephant_ is a much smaller volume than the original it describes, but it is still handsomely produced on fine paper and with fittingly copious illustrations. It is a vibrant account of an artist accomplishing his dream.

Brecht's language is melting. The plot resembles that of Chekhov's Platonov, only more poetic. Is one of Brecht's best plays, often underrated. Highly recommended by this reader.

I've heard this tape over and over for months and even I am not tired of it yet.
the quality of the reading is so good and the production values are so excellent that it has real lasting value that goes beyond the timelessness and charm of the stories themselves.

I'm not sure exactly what it is about this book, but my 2-year-old wants to read it every night. It's a charming story that hinges on the premise that Babar the Elephant King cannot be seen at the opera without his crown. To find the crown, Babar and his family go all over Paris looking for a man with a moustache who has a small red suitcase that's just like Babar's. It's a fairly long book for toddlers, but it has just one or two sentences per page. My daughter loves to look for the "moustache man," and thanks to this book, she can now identify the Eiffel Tower. We have a very old copy that was mine when I was a little girl, so I hope they haven't changed any parts of the story in this reprint.

... and finds it a lot of fun, in or out of the bathtub. It's really stood up to lots of gnawing and playing, too. A good buy.

Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.

To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Babar's Fair was one of her picks. That was especially poignant to me because the book entered our family as a gift to our daughter's older sister, so it is now finishing its second decade with us.

Babar is the king of the elephants, and his capital city is Celesteville (named after Queen Celeste). He decides to hold a celebration in honor of the anniversary of the city's founding. This time there will be a big fair which all of the animals will participate in. Each animal will have its own booth to show things from its own country. The kangaroos, giraffes, lions, birds, rhinos, and camels all exhibit.

Then there are some imaginative activities involving diving suits for all of the animals, a water slide for hippos, a kangaroo puppet show, and some wonderful shopping.

My daughter was fascinated by the idea of animals acting like people, and putting on their own fair. It made her feel closer to animals. She also loves the gentleness and consideration of King Babar and Queen Celeste. The young elephants always get into mischief. In this case, Alexander is bumped into by a hippo coming off the water slide after his own tenth trip down the slide. My daughter also loved all of the names like Doctor Capoulosse, Podular the sculptor, Ramatur the rhinoceros, and Xilophon the monkey.

In many ways, the elephants live in a modern-day Garden of Eden. It's good for children to have this sense of peacefulness. You can also use this book to talk about other kinds of fairs, and to encourage your child to want to visit one. You can visit 4-H fairs in the summer, county fairs in the fall, the International Pavillions at Epcot Center in Orlando all year round, and even a real world's fair every so often.

Another fun activity is to put on your own fair with your child and other friends at home.

Overcome your stalled thinking about the potential for your child to understand complex, peaceful interactions by building on the concepts in this wonderful book!

This is a great set of 4 miniature books. I've had fun reading them with my grandchildren. Perfect size for little hands.