Elephants: A Book for Children

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Gods in Chains – Rhea Ghosh (2005): The book hopes to highlight the conditions of captive elephants as they are currently used and kept in India. Initially started as informal documentation, Gods in Chains later expanded to become a handbook of sorts, for anyone wanting to know more of the reality behind the veil of glamour and majesty of the captive pachyderm, especially in temple rituals and festival processions. The often troubled and complex relationship with their only companion, the mahout, is also a story of pathos and heartbreak for a deeply social and community-minded animal. 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. Elephant Memories: Thirteen years in the Life of an Elephant Family- Cynthia Moss (2000): Her chronicles of the lives of the elephant members of the T families- a glimpse into their everyday life and what makes them who they are. These magnificent mammals spend between 12 to 18 hourseating grass, plantsand fruitevery single day! They use their long trunks to smell their food and lift it up into their mouth – yum!

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. 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. We often get asked for recommendations for animal and elephant books. Because education plays such a huge role in a better future for elephants, we are glad to provide a reading list to create an easy reference. Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity- G.A. Bradshaw (2010): Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. With no trace of her birth family, Lex grew up at the zoo with Nyah and her elephant family; her foster father, Roger; her best friend, Fisher; and the wind whispering in her ear.I received my 3 books today and they are amazing, so well done, thank you so much! Really exciting to finally see them." 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

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. of the profit from the sale of the book will be donated to Born Free Foundation Saving Meru's giants project. In Mount Elgon National Park in Kenya, a group of elephants use their tusks to mine for salt in underground caves! They feel their way around with their trunks and eat the salts by breaking them off with their tusks. 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" To the Elephant Graveyard- Tarquin Hall (2001): A compelling account of the search for a killer elephant in the Northeast corner of India, and a vivid portrait of the tribe who live intimately with the elephants. It examines the elephant suffering taking place due to loss of their natural habitat.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.

And as he battled to create a bond with the elephants, he came to realize that they had a great deal to teach him. About life, loyalty, and freedom. I Just wanted to say how lovely your book 'Saving Elephants' is - I really enjoy looking through it". 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. They have partnered with Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN) to develop an Elephant Crisis Fund, which has funded 348 projects throughout Africa and Asia. I personally donate time and money to WCN and can attest to both their ethics and their effectiveness. Hannah’s Dream- Diane Hammond (2008): A story about a zoo caregiver and his lone elephant that he tries to give a better life, by sending her to an elephant sanctuary.

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An elephant never forgets, but Lexington Willow can’t remember what happened before a tornado swept her away when she was a toddler. All she knows is that it landed her near an enclosure in a Nebraska zoo. And there an elephant named Nyah protected her from the storm.

Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery-Andrew Westoff (2012): An unflinching, visceral look at the emotional and physical damage—actual, real damage done to specific, individual apes—in some of America’s most notorious biomedical research labs. It is also the story of humans who were driven to provide them with refuge, retirement . . . and, ultimately, their inherent right to dignity.A natural history rich in observation of the animal world and how humans participate in it, Silent Thunderis also a passionate story of scientist Katy Payne’s spiritual quest as she turns a keen eye on her role in this world. The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams. His uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill Despite our differences in size and shape, humans relate so profoundly to elephants. Perhaps it’s their fierce loyalty, their female-forward power structure, long memories or sheer strength. But people who love elephants, really love elephants. And if that’s you, then we have a perfect reading list for you. If you would like to learn more about elephant conservation, you would be hard pressed to find a better organization than Save the Elephants. Ian Douglas-Hamilton is the premier elephant conservationist and his team in Kenya lead efforts for not only their HQ in Kenya’s Samburu Reserve, but around the world. I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.