Elephants Books

Amazing Book.

I could not put it down. So, I finished it in one go. The authors had the insight of a naturalist who knew the terrain well. It provides a very realistic psychoanalysis of a military man, and a rebel. Above all, it exposes the futility of many so-called liberation struggles, where two parties are trying liberate a group of people who in fact would prefer to be left alone rather than be liberated.

Kids ages 6-10 will find Robi Dobi an enchanting read, recounting the adventures of an Indian elephant. Amanda Hall's color and black and white drawings accent a fun set of adventures revolving around the elephant and his friends.

Erotic lithographs from France form the content of a spectacular, large, and well-produced book _Romantique: Erotic Art of the Early Nineteenth Century_ (Elephant & Mouse Editions). The selections here come from Hans-Jurgen Döpp, who is apparently a famed collector of such things: "His important collection of erotic art has been built up over many years by drawing upon sources in various European countries." As in most such collections of erotic art, here are introductory chapters to put the art into context and explain its importance, and as such essays go, the ones included here are just fine. But the "reader" always wonders if the words are just there as justification for the shameful pleasures indulged in by the "viewer."

The charm of the pictures in this book (and they are charming) is that they were made to appeal to the bourgeoisie who would be buying them by depicting just their sort of people in familiar settings. There are some rather silly historical pictures here; in one a knight in a suit of armor (well, not the entire suit, just the coat without the pants, so as not to impede the nether regions) raises his glass while fondling his girlie as she fondles him. For the most part, however, these are contemporaries, showing off the best style of their times. They are dressed in clothes that are similar to those more familiarly shown in period fashion books. Oh, they do remain dressed, most of them. The women lower their blouses to show fashionably small breasts and button aureoles, or raise their dresses just so to show what we would now regard as buns of less than steel. The men may have their trousers off or down, but generally their priapic displays of eagerness are available for the delight of the ladies involved by means of unbuttoned but undoffed breeches. Everything is pretty in these rather romantic pictures, which are divided into sections for soloists, duets, trios, quartets, and "the noble orgy."

This is a delightful book of pretty pictures. Anyone who likes looking at erotic couplings will enjoy it, and those who need a "proper" reason to do so can always claim they are looking at history, and their enjoyment will be undimmed.

I bought this book for my Grandchildren, and they enjoyed it very much. The book is positive and inspiring. It is a book that shows Children that it is OK to be different. After I read it to my Grandchildren they had several questions about Ronnie. I highly recommend this book.

This is an older copy of this book, written in 1989. It's is an environmental document.

Heathcote's poetic description of the plight of the elephant is beautiful, painful and very accurate. Half of the book is devoted to his ode to the elephant and the second half is devoted to miscellaneous quotes and short texts that are about elephants.

This book was written when the ivory trade was still in full swing and some of the pictures are heartbreaking. There is a lot of historical information. The places in which elephants have lived have been very influenced by their presence. This is a book that must be read to be fully appreciated.

Interesting book - written awhile ago yet the parts about zoos and circuses are still very timely. It's amazing to me that in this day and age people would choose a circus act with live animals in it, and that these magnificent fellow sentient beings are being keep in zoos.

The Saggy Baggy Elephant

This book was one of my and my daughter's favorite books. I had it read to me as a child and loved it. I then read it to my daughter when she was little and she loved it. Now, even though she is 16 she still remembers the lovely little Saggy Baggy Elephant... A TREASURE FOR SURE!!

This is one of Schmidt's "superbooks," a large format novel with unusual page layouts, illustrations, and puns a'plenty. Nowhere near as difficult as Zettel's Traum or Evening Edged in Gold, it's a rollicking tale of culture-clash set in the near future (with an extended flashback to 1969), and features a typical Schmidt protagonist (a walking encyclopedia of an old codger), two delightful 17-year-old girls, a visiting American Secretary of State nicknamed Isis, and many more. If you've read & like Schmidt, you'll love this (once again heroically translated by the amazing John E. Woods). And if you don't know Schmidt, you don't know one of the greatest writers of the 20th century--which means you have some catching up to do, and may as well start here.

Es una historia creativa y graciosa con dibujos que aun recuerdo de la primera vez que me lo leyeron a mi. Es uno de los libros que debe formar parte de la cultura literaria de cada nino, cualquiera que sea su patria.

This book was first published in 1974 and yet it still contain items of significant interest for today's modern scuba diver. Jacques Cousteau will forever remain the world's greatest diving pioneer and it is through these books that the modern diver is able to add something to their own knowledge of the sport of scuba diving - a "something" that is not found in any "how to learn to dive" book.

In this particular book, we share the Cousteau team's encounters with three great creatures of the sea - the Sea Lion, Elephant Seal and Walrus, in several of their worldly habitats. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to dive in amongst that local colony of Seals, this book will point the way.

As with all the books in this series, it is well written and soon becomes a good read. There will come a time, of course, when it is no longer available and those divers who have not yet added it to their bookshelf will then be found spending many fruitless hours searching for a copy.

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These books are an amazing series. They really provide a true spy series appropriate for young children. The "spies" are part of the GPF - Global Protection Force - an international spy ring devoted to promoting justice and made up entirely of kids. The books have great gadgets - this one features a Power Pogo Stick which allowed Jack, the protagonist, to leap 15 feet in the air and help him escape a hungry pack of hunting lions, the Flyboard (one of Jack's all time favorite gadgets) that helped him soar in the air after the bad guys and a Lava Laser that when pointed at a piece of metal, made the metal so hot that it would burns someone's hands if they held on to the metal. Jack is a 9-year-old boy and it's great for kids to have a super-spy just like them. The books are also completely benign - no one really gets hurt, the bad guys always get caught, and the kids have whatever gadgets they need to get out of a bad situation (and all those gadgets fit in a normal-sized backpack.) Each book also focuses on a different country in the world and thus has an educational aspect to it in exposing children to different cultures (e.g. Kenya, Indonesia) and different political concepts (e.g. poaching, piracy). I pre-order each new book in the series and my 7 1/2-year-old son loves them when we read them aloud to him. (In this particular book, he was a little bit afraid of the snake.)