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Elephants: A Book for Children

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His common sense told him to refuse.But he was the herd’s last chance of survival. They would be killed if he wouldn’t take them. Now that she’s twelve, Lex is finally old enough to help with the elephants. But during their first training session, Nyah sends her a telepathic image of the woods outside the zoo. Despite the wind’s protests, Lex decides to investigate Nyah’s message. She gets wrapped up in an adventure involving ghosts, lost treasure, and a puzzle that might be the key to finding her family. We have given short descriptions and broken the books up into categories, so if there is something specific you are looking for, it’s easier to find. Some people want to educate themselves more on the broad range of subjects involving elephants, while others just want to get lost in a story that brings them closer to elephants – so we took that into account. Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa – Martin Meredith (2003): Martin Meredith lays out the history of this majestic animal from the Egyptian pharaohs’ first ivory expeditions 2,500 years ago to today, and explores the elephant’s role in literature and popular culture. He shares recent extraordinary discoveries about the elephant’s ability to communicate, its sophisticated family and community structure, and the ways–rare in the animal world–in which elephants show compassion and loyalty to each other. translation:- "Hello Alwyn my parcel arrived safely - the book is GORGEOUS!! I am very proud and happy to have participated in this beautiful project thank you"

I Just wanted to say how lovely your book 'Saving Elephants' is - I really enjoy looking through it".An Elephant in the Garden – Michael Morpurgo (2013): (Fiction grades 5-9) Lizzie and Karl’s mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don’t run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead.

Lawrence Anthony devoted his life to animal conservation, protecting the world’s endangered species. Then he was asked to accept a herd of “rogue” wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand. Elephants are memorable giants. They have great memories and are incredibly intelligent. Contrastingly, they can be incredibly gentle with their young, yet are one of the fiercest wild animals out there.This is by no means a complete list of every elephant book, but something to get you started. If you feel like there is an amazing book we missed that needs to be listed, let us know. Please enjoy Rattling the Cage- Steven M. Wise (2001): Explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law while demonstrating the cognitive, emotional, and social capacities of these apes.

Starting with the story of her revolutionary discovery that elephants use infrasonic sounds – sounds below the range of human hearing – to communicate, Payne shares what she learned from her fascinating field research in Africa. Research that reveals new insights into elephants’ social lives. When five of the elephant families she studies are the victims of culling, Payne’s approach to her research changes. She fights valiantly to protect the elephants. of the profit from the sale of the book will be donated to Born Free Foundation Saving Meru's giants project.

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Love, War, and Circuses: The Age-Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans – Eric Scigliano (2004): In a kaleidoscopic account rich in historic lore, surprising science, and exotic adventure, Eric Scigliano traces an age-old, extraordinary relationship between species and shows how it still haunts and inspires us today.

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