Elephants Books

This book is awesome. It is filled with amazing pictures and all the information you will ever need about Elephants. I love it! I recomend checking out many of the other "eyewittness" books. If you need information for a book report or are just ready to discover something new... this is the book for you.

My children (4, 18 months) love these books and so do I. The pictures are beautiful and there is a glossary of terms with pictures. The story starts when the animal is born and shows the whole life cycle. The sentences are short, but informative which makes it a quick bedtime read. There are also more detailed bubbles for when the kids are a bit older.

Intro to Asian and African elephants that compares zoo animals with those in the wild. Colorful book design with excellent, photos (some labeled). Asks and answers questions such as "Where do elephants live?" and "What do elephants eat?" Did you know, "Elephants take care of each other. They work to keep the herd safe." There is a quiz, picture glossary, index, and note to parents and teachers that supplies some additional information. Karen Woodworth-Roman, Children's Science Book Review

Such Fabulous Stickers! These stickers r beautiful and under the right lighting u would think they were fabulously real! Fabulous! sometimes when ur quiet they make little roaring noises! Fabulous! But they do need their toe nails trimmed? I havent seen elephants this real since i was in cabo san lucas after the first world war! Fabulous!!!!! Fabulous!!!!! Total Fab!! HEart Ya! ~Ellen~

Independent scholar and curator Philippe Truong provides a key text for any college-level art library strong in Asian ceramics in THE ELEPHANT AND THE LOTUS: VIETNAMESE CERAMICS IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON. Over two hundred objects from the collection are profiled in a gathering of wares from throughout Vietnam, analyzed by the expert author and representing the first complete published catalog of this collection.

The stunning debut of a grand American fabulist. Beyond the wondrous title, opening, & closing tales (generous blanket coverage of prehistoric, African, & Indian elephant/human/machine psychology/relations) this book includes the incredibly perfect "Marie" (the end of exhuberance), the incredibly perfect "The Great Liar" (the root of all fiction), plus several other amazements. Just a couple of clunkers, easily forgiven by grateful gentle readers.

Kotzwinkle's first book, which needs to be in print. Produce of a true deep sweet child/animal mind overlayered with a gravely dangerous literary sophistication. Funny beyond brief description or easy belief. Also remarkably kind, somehow, in spite of its occasionally alarming clarity. Mysteriously hopeful. Peculiar.

This is one of those classic, wonderful books that can hugely expand a child's horizons and help them learn to love reading. Everything the laudatory description says of it is true.

What an absolute wonderful story!!! Children await eagerly for the next page of this beautifully illustrated book to be turned. What a clever format...a cat dreaming of being another completely different animal! Fun to read to preschoolers. My son got this when he was one year and still treasures it as an adult. It never gets out dated. The illustrations are so detailed...and the expressions on the cat as the story unfolds are priceless. I highly recommend this book.

True to its title, this book describes the experiences of well known elephant biologist and conservationalist Raman Sukumar's doctoral project. Packed with great anecdotal and biological information about the normal life of asian elephants, it makes great reading for any reader. It will delight the nature lover, as Raman relives ten long years of trailing jumbos in the verdant forests of south india.

Particularly interesting is the way raman fights stubborn gadgets, shoestring budgets, bureaucracy, and sometimes elephants themselves to compile what became one of the comprehensive projects on elephant demographics, habit-habitat, conflicts with people and poachers.

Must read for young people and biologists.

This is a superb children's picture book, hilariously using elephants to demonstrate some obvious quantities, such as 'more' and 'less', and some less obvious quantities. A very simple, but thought provoking book; some parents may feel that some illustrations are not suitable for their child.