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Title: "A Book of Elephants" Author: Katie Wales Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: unclassified Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1977 Kaye & Ward, Inc. |
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Title: "A Piece of Cake" Author: Jill Murphy Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jill Murphy Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1989 Jill Murphy |
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Title: "A Quiet Night In" Author: Jill Murphy Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jill Murphy Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Typical Jill Murphy book; marvelous illustrations and written with a wit which will likely escape young children who will nevertheless enjoy the story about Mr. Large's birthday celebration which ends up with Mr. and Mrs. Large asleep on the couch while the children put themselves to bed.
It is much funnier than this little summary indicates. WH 2000-07-12 copyright1993 Jill Murphy |
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Title: "Africa's Elephants" Author: ??? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: n/a Basis: unclassified Category: Activity Level: Juvenile | Endangered Friends Coloring Book w/ Crayons copyright2000 Dalmatioan Press |
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Title: "Alfie The Playful Elephant" Author: Leah Gale Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Elsie Darien Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Alfie is a young elephant who would rather play than do what he is supposed to do. He tries many different jobs but always gets distracted by something more fun. Eventually he learns that play is fine in its place but to take responsibility.
WH 2000-07-12 copyright1966 Samuel Lowe Co Inc. |
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Title: "Alistair's Elephant" Author: Marilyn Sadler Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Roger Bollen Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Children's story of a boy, Alistair, who visits the zoo every Saturday. One visit an elephant follows him home. His mother says he may not keep it but the elephant won't leave. It stays in the yard looking into Alistair's room day and night.
The following Saturday Alistair again visits the zoo and is able to return the elephant. Unbeknownst to him, on his way home he is being followed by a giraffe. WH 2000-09-02 copyright1983 author & illustrator |
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Title: "All By Myself" Author: Ivan Bates Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright2000 Ivan Bates |
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Title: "All In One Piece" Author: Jill Murphy Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile Another magnificently illustrated book by Jill Murphy, "All In One Piece" features the Large Family. -- > |
Mr. and Mrs. Large are going to an annual dance and grandmother is coming to mind the children. While Mrs. Large is dressing the baby gets into her makeup, the older sister was wearing mother's shoes and jewelry and the two boys were filling her pantyhose with toys as if it was Santa's sack.
The children are sent downstairs to paint with Granny and keep out of her hair while she dresses. She just wants one night in the year when she is not covered with jam and poster paint. She sits down in the kitchen and says good-bye to the kids and leaves without getting anything on her lovely new dress ... SHE thinks. WH 2000-06-10 copyrightWalker Books,GB copyright1987 by Jill Murphy |
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Title: "Allie The Alergic Elephant" Author: Nicole Smith Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Maggie Nichols Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Allie the elephant has an allergic reaction to peanuts served at school, and soon learns what symptoms to watch for and what foods to avoid. LOC Summary
Original illustrations appear to have been done with crayons. Drawings are at the skill level of a child, whether this is deliberate or simply the limit of the illustrator's ability not known. WH2000-07-12 copyright2000 Jungle Communications Inc |
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Title: "America's First Elephant" Author: Robert M. McClung Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Marilyn Janovitz Basis: Non-Fiction Category: History Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1991 McClung & Janovitz |
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Title: "An Elephant Is Not A Cat" Author: Alvin Tresselt & Wilbur Wheaton Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Tom Vroman Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1962 Parents Magazine Press Inc |
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Title: "April Fool" Author: Harriet Ziefert Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Chris Demarest Basis: Fiction Category: Poetic Level: Juvenile |
A boy tells a story about an elephant who goes to school and admits at last it's April Fool.
WH 2000-08-04 copyright2000 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Babar & His Friends at Amusement Park" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar & His Friends at Home" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar & His Friends at the Farm" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar & His Friends in Celesteville" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar & His Friends in The Forest" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar A New York" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Laurent de Brunhoff Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile | in French language copyright1965 Random Hosue, 1966 Librairie Hachette |
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Title: "Babar An Elephant's Best Friend" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar And Father Christmas" Author: Jean de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyrightde Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar And His Children" Author: Jean de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyrightde Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar And The Ghost" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Babar and his children go on a picnic near an old castle where the children exclaim they want to see the 'ghost' of the castle. Babar says there is no such things a ghost.
It begins to rain so they take shelter in the castle. The children meet a friendly ghost who was inhabiting a suit of armor.
The ghost was invisible to adults so the children persuaded him to play tricks like operating a lawn mower and pouring lemonade from a pitcher, and driving off in Babar's car. Babar never did see the ghost but the children had great fun with it. WH 2000-06-10 copyrightde Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar And Zephir" Author: Jean DeBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: ditto Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile | Dandelion Library 2-in-1 book; 40 pages are Babar & Zephir, other portion of 55 pages inverted is "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin". Book is reproduced handwriting. Originally published under title "Zephir's Holidays". copyright1937 Random House, Inc. |
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Title: "Babar In The Jungle" Author: Kathryn Cristaldi Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Ron Fritz Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
based on HBO movies under license from Laurent de Brunhoff copyright1989 Nelvana Ltd. |
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Title: "Babar Learns To Cook" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Actually, Babar does NOT learn to cook in this story about Chef Truffles teaching cooking on television then in the palace kitchen.
It is the children who, while the chef is napping, steal his hat and make a shambles of the kitchen except that Arthur's chocolate sauce is quite good. Celeste helps them clean up; the chef arrives and makes both a cake to go under the sauce and strawberry soufflé and all ends well. WH 2000-06-10 copyright1978 Laurent De Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar Loses His Crown" Author: Laurent De Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Laurent De Brunhoff Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1967 Random House |
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Title: "Babar Number Fun" Coloring Book Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar Saves The Day" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Olala, a renowned folk singer elephant and her partner parrot come to Celesteville to give a concert and get into a personal spat. The parrot flies away so the concert will be ruined.
Everyone hunts for and tries to capture him but it happens that Babar encounters him and talks him into making up with Olala and all ends well. WH 2000-06-10 copyright1976 Laurent De Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar Snapshots from Celestville" w/sounds Author: Publisher staff? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 Laurent de Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar The Best Present in the World" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar The Boy King" Author: Gail Herman Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David Prebenna Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
from HBO movies under license from L. de Brunhoff copyright1989 Nelvana Ltd |
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Title: "Babar The King" Author: Jean de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Babar The Movie Storybook" Author: Cathy Dubowski & Renzo Barto Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyrightLaurent de Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar The Painter" Author: Laurent De Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
First American Edition. Babar receives a set of paints for his birthday and proceeds to paint all kinds of things. He sets out a collection of fruit for a still life but Arthur and Zephir eat it so he bicycles off to the country to paint undisturbed. He takes a nap and awakens to find the painting finished (by Zephir).
WH 2000-06-10 copyright1971 Random House, 1969 Librairie hachette |
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Title: "Babar The Phantom" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar The Race To The Moon" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar The Show Must Go On" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar To Duet or Not To Duet" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar" coloring book Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright L deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar's ABC Book" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Babar's Bath Book" Author: Laurent de brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: L de brunhoff Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
All soft filled plastic for use by toddler's in the bathtub. Cute. WH copyright1992 Laurent de Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar's Book of Color" Author: Laurent De Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Laurent De Brunhoff Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1984 Laurent De Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar's Busy Week" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Babar's Busy Year" Author: Laurent De Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Laurent De Brunhoff Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1989 Laurent De Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar's Car" Book with wheels Author: Publisher staff? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1992 Laurent De Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar's Little Circus Star" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Isabelle, Babar's youngest child, is left out of many activities because she is
too young for them. It happens that a circus comes through town and the clowns think Isabelle
is very cute and can do tricks nicely so they let her perform in the circus with them and this
makes her feel better about being small.
A bit of a fable to teach little ones it is not all bad being little. WH 2000-06-10 |
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Title: "Babar's Little Girl" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Babar's Little Library" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Four small books in a slip case. Titles: "About Air", "About Earth", "About Fire" and "About Water". copyrightL. DeBrunhoff    
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Title: "Babar's Moon Trip" Pop-Up Book Author: Laurent De Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Laurent De Brunhoff Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1969 Laurent De Brunhoff |
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Title: "Babar's Mystery" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Four crocodiles, in league with Rataxes, the rhinoceros who is generally Babar's enemy, steal a piano, Babar's car, and a new statue which was going to be dedicated in the resort city of Celesteville-On-The-Sea.
They are ultimately captured and all ends well enough. WH 2000-06-10 copyright1978 L.deBrunhoff |
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Title: "Babar's Paint Box Book" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Babar's Yoga for Elephants" Author: Laurent De Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: unclassified Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright2002-2006 Laurent De Brunhoff |
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Title: "Baby Elephant And The Secret Wishes" Author: Sesyle Joslin Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Leonard Weisgard Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Written for young children but many words are advanced vocabulary. Story tells of young anthropomorphized elephant who has Christmas gifts for his family and goes around making sure they secretly wish for exactly what he plans to give them. He, of course, plants these words in their mouths, but it is a fun read nevertheless. Illustrations are 'different' ... reflective of the period perhaps.
WH 2000-04-21 copyright1962 Sesyle Joslin, Leonard Weisgard |
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Title: "Baby Elephant" Author: Lucille Recht Penner Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Betina Ogden Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 text=author, images=illustrator |
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Title: "Bad Boris & The New Kitten" Author: Susie Jenkin-Pearce Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Susie Jenkin-Pearce Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1987 Macmillan |
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Title: "Bad Boris Goes To School" Author: Susie Jenkins-Pearce Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Susie Jenkins-Pearce Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1989 Macmillan copyright1989 Jenkins-Pearce |
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Title: "Bashi, Elephant Baby" Author: Theresa Radcliffe Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: John Butler Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 Radcliffe & Butler |
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Title: "Bernard's Bath" Author: Joan Elizabeth Goodman Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Dominici Catalano Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1996 AUthor & Illustrator |
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Title: "Big Max" Author: Kin Platt Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Robert Lopshire Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Children's Story about Jumbo. Elephant doesn't appear until page 52.
Most of story is Big Max trying to find Jumbo who is having a birthday party in the forest.
WH 2000-06-10 copyright1965 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Black Elephant" Author: Virginia F Voight Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Wm A McCaffery Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1959 Virginia Frances Voight |
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Title: "Boga The Elephant" Author: K.O.S. Baroness Dombrowski Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Youth level story of baby elephant's learning adventures. Pretty good.
WH 2001-12-02 copyright1928 The Macmillan Co |
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Title: "Bozo and the Hide 'n' Seek Elephant" Author: William Johnston Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Allan Hubbard & Milli Jancar Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Little Golden Book, third printing 1972.
Queenie the elephant disappears just before a performance and Bozo and Butch spend the book trying to find her. They do and all's well. She was hiding in front of a life sized posted of herself. WH 2000-06-10 copyright1968 Larry Harmon Pictures Corp |
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Title: "Bump Is Busy" Author: Christopher James Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Steve Augarde Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright Bump Enterprises Ltd |
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Title: "But No Elephants" Author: Jerry Smath Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jerry Smath Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Each day a pet salesman sells another pet to Grandma Tildy and each day she says 'But no elephants'. Finally only the elephant is left and the salesman is leaving town before winter and he simply leaves the elephant in her yard.
The snow comes and completely covers him and he is crying out in the snow so Grandma and the other animals let him in. He crashes through the floor and is stuck. All the food runs out and the firewood runs out. They can't leave the house for the cold and can't stay for starvation but in a surprise ending the elephant solves all their problems. Very cute book. WH 2000-08-22 copyright1979 Jerome R. Smath |
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Title: "Chad And The elephant Engine" Author: Marjorie Filley Stover Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Judith Gwyn Brown Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Based on legend of Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad. Minor illustrations. copyright1975 Stover copyright1975 Brown |
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Title: "Chaga" Author: Will & Nicholas Lipkind Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Will & Nicholas Lipkind Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1955 Will & Nicholas Lipkind |
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Title: "Chunky Safari - Elephant" Author: Campbell Books, Text Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile | Very brief story about an elephant and a monkey engaged in one-upmanship. Ends with all animals taking a ride on elephant. copyright Author, Illustrator, Conceiver |
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Title: "Cora and the Elephants" Author: Lissa Rovetch Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lissa Rovetch & Martha Weston Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
A shipwrecked infant washes ashore where she is adopted by an elephant couple. As she grows older she questions her origins. Her 'mother and father' have only a tag from her life preserver marked Pier 38 San Francisco.
They journey to San Francisco and find the location is a life preserver factory. The owner, enchanted with them, invites them to visit; they stay for months. Eventually Cora longs to go home to Africa and they do. She learns there is no place like home no matter where you came from. Like many children's stories this one pretends elephants can talk, ride airplanes, taxicabs, etc. WH 2000-08-10 copyright1995 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Daddy, Could I Have An Elephant?" Author: Jake Wolf Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Marylin Hafner; watercolors, pencils, pen & ink Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1996 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Dubbeldikkle Vrienden" Author: Miep Diekmann Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Irmtraut Korth-Sander Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Dutch language copyright1985 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Dumbo The Circus Baby" Author: Disney Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile | A Golden Sturdy Shape Book® copyright1993 Walt Disney Co |
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Title: "Dumbo" Author: Walt Disney Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Disney staff ? Basis: Fiction Category: Fantasy Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Dumbo" Coloring Book Author: Disney / Western Pub Co Golden Book ® Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Disney Basis: Fiction Category: Fantasy Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1996, 1972 Disney Enterprises Inc |
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Title: "Dumbo" Golden Sound Story Author: Disney Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: John Kurtz Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1993 The Walt Disney Co |
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Title: "Dumbo's Book Of Colors" Author: Disney Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile | A First Little Golden Book® copyright1988 The Walt Disney Company |
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Title: "Dumbo's Circus Train" Author: Publisher staff? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Circus Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1995 The Walt Disney Co |
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Title: "Eddie The Elephant" Author: John Storms Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Robert Storms Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Edsel The Elephant Who Learned To Share" Author: Sunny Griffin Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: R. M. Kolding Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Rhyming verse story teaches how Edsel derives happiness by sharing with other animals. Charming illustrations.
WH 2000 copyright1993 Landoll |
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Title: "Edwina The Elephant" Author: Ken Morton Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Ken Morton Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Very simple book describes young elephant Edwina's day; going to the river for a drink and shower; going into the forest to eat fruits and berries; playing with her friends.
WH 2000-08-15 copyright Peter Haddock Ltd. Bridlington England |
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Title: "Effie" Elephant Paper Doll Book Author: Judy M Johnson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyrightDover Books |
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Title: "Elephant & Mouse Celebrate Halloween" Author: Lois G Grambling Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Deborah Maze Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. The Elephant & Mouse series is very entertaining. copyright1991 Barron's Educational Series, Inc. |
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Title: "Elephant & Mouse Get Ready for Christmas" Author: Lois G Grambling Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Deborah Maze Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. The Elephant & Mouse series is very entertaining. copyright1995 Barron's Educational Series, Inc. |
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Title: "Elephant & Mouse Get ready for Easter" Author: Lois G Grambling Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Deborah Maze Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. The Elephant & Mouse series is very entertaining. copyright1995 Barron's Educational Series, Inc. |
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Title: "Elephant and Envelope" Author: Barbara Gregorich Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: John Sandford Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1996 School Zone® Publishing Co |
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Title: "Elephant Ann" Author: Jon Madian Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Kathy Jacobi Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Tells of a little elephant who had a very bad coughing and sneezing cold.
The village folk gave her a bed sheet for a handkerchief and as she kept sneezing they sewed
additional colorful sheets to the first.
When Ann stopped sneezing they took the assembled sheets to the brook and washed them then set them in the meadow to dry. The wind lifted the giant handkerchief into the air and people and animals put on a show beneath it. That is how the first circus began. Cute story nicely illustrated. WH 2000-05-06 copyright1988 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Elephant Baby" Author: Text adapted by Udiavar G. Rao Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Robert Boehmer Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Photo Documentary Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1962 Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. |
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Title: "Elephant Boy" Author: William Kotzwinkle Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Joe Servello Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Story depicts a day in the life of a stone age boy who has no name yet as he has
not done anything nor experienced any event which would give him a name of his own.
When elephants (mammoths or mastodons) come by on their search for water the boy grabs a hair from the tail of one. His father makes it into a necklace and he is given the name "Elephant Boy". WH copyright1970 William Kotzwinkle & Joe Servello |
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Title: "Elephant Eats The Profits" Author: Jacquelyn Reinach Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Richard Hefter Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
An elephant operates a grocery at a loss because she eats more than she sells. After some mishaps the other animals all pitch in to help her get more customers because if she goes out of business there won't be any grocery for any of them.
WH 2000-08-09 copyright1977 Euphrosyne, Inc. |
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Title: "Elephant Families" Author: Arhtur Dorros Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Arhtur Dorros Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 author |
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Title: "Elephant For Rent" Author: Lucille Chaplan Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Don Sibley Basis: Fiction Category: Adventure Level: Juvenile |
This 1950's youth level novel reads a bit more like pre WWII adventure.
Jimmy, a lad of 12, receives a young elephant 'pet' from his father who is catching wild
animals in Africa. The story involves a nearly successful attempt by unscrupulous adults
to steal the elephant and Jimmy's adventures trying to elude them. All ends well, of course.
WH 2001-08-19 copyright1959 Lucille Chaplan |
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Title: "Elephant Games" Author: Brod Bagert Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Tim Ellis Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1995 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Elephant Goes To School" Author: Jerry Smath Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jerry Smath Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Grandma Tildy's elephant wants to play with the children but the children
must go to school so Grandma arranges for Elephant to go to school where he has a wonderful time.
Cute story and illustrations. WH 2000-07-26 copyright1984 Jerry Smath |
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Title: "Elephant In Trouble" Author: Thomas Crawford Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Veronica Buffinton Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1970 Troll Associates |
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Title: "Elephant on Wheels" Author: Alida McKay Thacher Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jerry Scott; sketches by Ted Schroeder Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1974 Western Pub Co |
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Title: "Elephant Pie" Author: Hilda Offen Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile The Snipper-Snappers (crocs or gators) order a birthday cherry pie from Mrs. Elephant, the town's baker. When her youngest, Jojo, goes missing she becomes all flustered and makes a custard from mustard. While delivering the pie (in a wheelbarrow of course), they encounter various animals who -- > |
give them false information about Jojo's whereabouts. Each time they traipse off to have a look, they deceiving animal eats some of the decorations off the pie. When finally delivered, the pie disappoints the Snipper-Snappers.
A bit later, the missing Jojo, asleep inside the pie awakens, pops out and starts crying for mama. The crocs decide to have elephant pie instead of cherry. Just as they are about to take a bite of Jojo, Mrs. Elephant rushes in and pours the "custard" over Jojo to hide her. The crocs took a big lick and burned their tongues. They cried so hard the rising flood of tears floated the pie dish, bearing Jojo, out the window and the elephants escaped. WH 2000-09-06 copyright1993 author |
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Title: "Elephant Small and the Splashy Bath" Author: Sally Grindley Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Andy Ellis Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Toddler |
Ages 1 to 3 years. Synopsis or review not ready. copyright1999 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Elephant Small Goes to a Party" Author: Sally Grindley Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Andy Ellis Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Toddler |
Ages 1 to 3 years. Synopsis or review not ready. copyright1999 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Elephant Small Is Lost" Author: Sally Grindley Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Andy Ellis Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Toddler |
Ages 1 to 3 years. Synopsis or review not ready. copyright 1997 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Elephant Stories" Author: Edward W. & Marguerite P. Dolch Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Dee Wallace Basis: Fiction Category: Stories Level: Juvenile |
Large print for children. A Dolch Basic Book teaching vocabulary. copyright1956 Edward W. Dolch |
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Title: "Elephant" Author: Ian Redmond Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile | Eyewitness Books copyright1993 Dorling Kindersley Ltd, London |
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Title: "Elephant" Author: Judy Allen Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Tudor Humphries, watercolor Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1993 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Elephants Aloft" Author: Kathi Appelt Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Keith Baker, Liquitex brand acrylic on illus board Basis: Fiction Category: Fantasy Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready text copyright1993 author, illustrations copyright1993 illustrator |
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Title: "Elephants Calling" Author: Katharine Payne Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Photos: numerous sources Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Photo Documentary Level: Juvenile |
Katy Boynton Payne went to Amboseli to work with Joyce Poole recording elephant 'talk'.
Her book gives a brief chronicle of the Amboseli elephants with beautiful full color photos and uses a literary device of focusing on a young male, named Raoul, and showing his interactions with other members of his family. This is a delightful short book well suited to younger readers with an interest in science and nature. WH 2000-09-21 copyright1992 Katharine Payne |
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Title: "Elephants For Kids" Author: Anthony D. Fredericks Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: John F. McGee Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Purportedly told by a 10 year old who emigrated from Kenya, book describes
elephant biological and habitat facts with pronunciation cues for strange words.
Recommended and approved by the National Wildlife Federation through its Ranger Rick program for kids. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1999 Author plus many others |
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Title: "Elephants in the Garden" Author: Ida Scheib Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Ida Scheib Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Excellent tale of nine year old boy who lives across the street from Madison Square Garden and during Easter vacation when circus comes to the Garden becomes involved with the elephant trainer and certain elephants.
This 1958 novel of 58 pages with minor illustrations is an easy and entertaining read for young readers. Woven into the story are numerous facts about elephants, captive animals, and circus life. WH 2000-03-24 copyright1958 Ida Scheib |
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Title: "Elephants Never Jump" Author: Violet Easton Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Carme Solé Vendrell Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
The elephant moves into a village where all the animals play jokes on each other
trying to make them jump but the elephant says elephants never jump. All their attempts at
shouting 'Booo!' have no effect on him.
But when two tiger cubs are adrift in a boat heading for the falls, the elephant jumps across the river and saves them. He forgot that elephants never jump. Cute story nicely illustrated. WH 2000-07-26 copyright1985 Easton & Vendrell |
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Title: "Elephants On Board" Author: Suse MacDonald Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Cute silly story about a busload of elephants on their way to the circus
when they have a tire blow out.
They attempt to commandeer a variety of equipment form a construction site but they are too many and too heavy and everything they get on breaks down. Finally they choose a dump truck and get to the circus just in time. Few words on each page. Uses short rhyming statements. WH 2000-09-03 copyright1999 Suse MacDonald |
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Title: "Elephant's Picnic" Author: Playskool Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Judith Moffatt; photos of paper constructs Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Storybook with picture blocks. Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 Hasbro Inc. |
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Title: "Elephants" Author: John B Wexo Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Elephants: Facts, Stories, Games" Author: by B T Cork Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: ??? Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Ella The Elephant" Author: Kurt Wiese Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Kurt Wiese Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1931 Coward-McCann, Inc. |
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Title: "Elmer" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. All the David McKee "Elmer" books are delightful for young readers. WH copyright1968 David McKee |
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Title: "Elmer Again" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1991 Author |
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Title: "Elmer And The Lost Teddy" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Elmer goes in search of a teddy bear lost by Baby Elephant while on a picnic.
No one has seen it. Elmer hears someone calling for help and discovers the teddy in some bushes
crying to go home. The talking teddy is a trick played by Elmer's cousin Wilbur the ventriloquist.
All ends happily.
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Title: "Elmer and Wilbur" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. All the David McKee "Elmer" books are delightful for young readers. WH copyright1994 author |
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Title: "Elmer In The Snow" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Elmer coaxes his friends, who say the weather is too cold, to follow him up a
mountain and then shows them ow to play in the snow, slide on ice, make snowballs and have a
grand good time. When they get home again they think it is warm because they had been really
cold in the snow but were having so much fun they didn't notice.
WH 2000-07-13 copyright1995 David McKee |
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Title: "Elmer And The Kangaroo" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Elmer, with help from Lion and Tiger, teaches a sad kangaroo that he really
can jump once he stops being so afraid of failure.
Original British title "Elmer and The Stranger". WH 2000-07-13 copyright2000 David McKee |
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Title: "Elmer Takes Off" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. All the David McKee "Elmer" books are delightful for young readers. WH copyright1997 David McKee |
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Title: "Elmer's Colors" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. All the David McKee "Elmer" books are delightful for young readers. WH copyright1994 David McKee |
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Title: "Elmer's Day" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. All the David McKee "Elmer" books are delightful for young readers. WH copyright1994 David McKee |
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Title: "Elmer's Friends" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. All the David McKee "Elmer" books are delightful for young readers. WH copyright1994 David McKee |
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Title: "Elmer's Weather" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready. All the David McKee "Elmer" books are delightful for young readers. WH copyright1994 David McKee |
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Title: "Eloise Elephant" Bookshelf Buddies Author: Jerry Smath Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jerry Smath Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1995 Jerry Smath |
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Title: "Elympics" Author: X. J. Kennedy Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Graham Percy Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Spectacular illustrations adorn this collection of 12 and 16 line verses telling
of the exploits of various elephant athletes in the summer games and winter games events at the
Elympics.
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Title: "Emily Elephant and her friends" Author: ??? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: ??? Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile | bathtub book |
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Title: "Encore For Eleanor" Author: Bill Peet Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Bill Peet Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Bill Peet brings us another wonderfully illustrated elephant story, this time
about Eleanor who gets too old to perform her circus act and is relegated to a boring life in
a zoo. After a time, she discovers she can draw and soon becomes a happy performing elephant
again, drawing pictures to the delight of the applauding crowds who visit the zoo.
WH 2000-07-13 copyright1981 William B. Peet |
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Title: "Engelbert Joins the Circus" Author: Tom Paxton Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Roberta Wilson using egg tempera Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Englebert the Elephant" Author: Tom Paxton Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Steven Kellogg Basis: Fiction Category: Fantasy Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 Paxton & Kellogg |
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Title: "Eukee The Jumpy Jumpy Elephant" Author: C.L.Corman MD & Esther Trevino, MFCC Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Richard A. DiMatteo Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Book on ADHD for chidlren copyright1995 Specialty Press Inc |
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Title: "Ezra the Elephant" Author: Marjorie Barrows Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Nell Stolp Smock Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready Copyright 1934 Grosset & Dunlap Inc |
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Title: "Fanfou Dans Les Bayous" Author: André-Paul Pérales Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Christian Jarlov Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Storybook for teaching French language skills; with English translation appendix. copyright1982 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Favorite Songs Of Babar" MiniPiano book Author: Publisher staff? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 LB&Co numerous others |
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Title: "Five Minutes' Peace" Author: Jill Murphy Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jill Murphy Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1986 Jill Murphy (author & illustrator) |
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Title: "Frank & Ernest Play Ball" Author: Alexandra Day Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Alexandra Day Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 author |
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Title: "Giles and the Elephant" Author: Christine Pullein-Thompson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Dorothy Clark Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile A really well written children's book for young readers or to be read to preschoolers. Story concerns eight year old Giles Brown who lives in England near a small zoo. Giles loves all animals and is a gifted sketch artist. His life is upset by the arrival of a baby brother. The author does a truly splendid job of articulating the feelings of this boy. As the story progresses, Giles receives a kitten on whom he can lavish his affection and with whom he conquers his loneliness. -- > |
Unhappily, the kitten runs away. Giles is devastated.
A unique event occurs. Joe, an elephant from the nearby zoo escapes and is walking along the street in front of Giles home. They know each other because of the time Giles has spent sketching the elephants and learning from the elephant keeper, Mr. Pepita. Giles persuades Joe to come into his fenced garden; feeds and waters the elephant, then locks it in the yard and runs to summon help. Disaster is avoided thanks to Giles who becomes a neighborhood hero of sorts and is given a lifetime pass to the zoo. Not only that, he meets a new friend and finds his grownup kitten who still knows him. A happy ever after ending. WH 2000-04-06 copyright1960 UK Burke Publishing Co Ltd |
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Title: "Haji Of The Elephants" Author: Willis Lindquist Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Don Miller Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Good story, well written, for young readers (issued by Weekly Reader Children's Book Club).
Story of Burmese boy named Haji, age 13, who desperately wants to inherit job of oozie to elephant Majda Koom, who works as a logging elephant, after the boy's father becomes unable to work. Excellent job of revealing conditions in the logging camps as well as culture of loggers and behaviors of elephants. In the background are issues of ivory poaching and political upheavals which have an effect on Haji and the elephants but the story emphasis is on the boy and the elephant. Contains minor but well done black and white illustrations. WH 2000-06-26 copyright1976 Willis Lindquist |
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Title: "Hannibal and His 37 Elephants" Author: Marilyn Hirsch Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Marilyn Hirsch Basis: Non-Fiction Category: History Level: Juvenile |
LOC Summary: Hannibal assembles an army complete with elephants and sets out over the Alps to conquer Rome. copyright1977 Marilyn Hirsch |
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Title: "Have You Ever Seen An Elephant Sneeze?" Author: Bernadette McCarver Snyder Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jim Richter Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
An elephant graces the cover and is the subject of the first two-page
description of an animal made by God.
WH 2000-07-13 Cover: "is perfect for any child who is amazed and enthralled by animals -- from the family puppy dog to the zebra at the zoo -- and convinced that the One who created them had lots of fun in the process." copyright1996 Ave Maria Press, Inc. |
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Title: "Henry And The Elephant" Author: Rev. W. Awdry Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Owain Bell Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
From The Railway Series; Thomas the Tank Engine etc.
Engine Henry meets elephant in tunnel. copyright1990 Reed Intnl Books Ltd |
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Title: "Here's A Happy Elephant" Author: Colin and Jacqui Hawkins Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Colin and Jacqui Hawkins Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
This little book of 5 double sided boards has holes in each panel for fingers to poke through and make wiggly legs and tails. The cover image shows the trunk hole.
WH 2000-08-01 copyright1987 Colin and Jacqui Hawkins |
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Title: "Hiccups for Elephant" Author: James Preller Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Hans Wilhelm Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile | For ages 2 thru kindergarten. copyright1994 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Hide-And-Seek Elmer" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Activity book for very young children. copyright1998 David McKee |
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Title: "Horton Hatches the Egg" Author: Dr. Seuss Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1940 Dr. Seuss; 1968 T.S. & A.S. Geisel |
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Title: "Horton Hears A Who" Author: Dr. Seuss Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1954 Dr. Seuss; 1982 Dr. Seuss |
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Title: "How To Catch An Elephant" Author: Amy Schwartz Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Amy Schwartz Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
A verrry silllly story about using raisin bait to catch an elephant.
Nice humorous illustrations. Story probably best read to a little tike of age three to five but
up to age eight might get a kick out of the punny ending.
WH 2000-05-17 copyright1999 Amy Schwartz |
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Title: "How To Weigh An Elephant" Author: Bob Barner Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Bob Barner Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1995 Bob Barner copyright1995 Jo Dennis |
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Title: "Hullabaloo The Elephant Dog" Author: Ruth & Latrobe Carroll Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Ruth Carroll Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Exquisitely illustrated in black and white graphite drawings of exceptional
realism ... not quite photographic in quality but close.
Good short story suitable for reading to around age 5 and up. A poodle becomes an 'elephant dog' in a circus and helps thwart a tiger attack at great personal risk. All ends well. Note: according to "Elephant Bill" (Col. J. H. Williams) in his true stories of elephants in Burma, elephants hate dogs and do not want them around. Wh 2000-08-16 copyright1975 Ruth & Latrobe Carroll |
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Title: "Humpy" Author: no name Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Marion Morrison Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready no notice |
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Title: "I Am A Little Elephant" Author: Francois Crozat Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Francois Crozat Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1993 Barron's |
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Title: "I Believe In Me" Author: Mary Lea Floden Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Atelier Philippe Harchy Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Condensed Dumbo version in which mouse Timothy persuades Dumbo to fly.
Ends with this lesson: "When you believe in yourself you can do almost anything."
WH 2000-07-13 copyright1998 Disney Enterprises, Inc. |
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Title: "I Can Read About Elephants" Author: C. J. Naden Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Joel Snyder Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Illustrated facts about elephants' physiology, habitat, behaviors and so on,
at a level understandable by children.
WH 2000-06-10 copyright1979 Troll Associates |
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Title: "I Can Too!" Author: David McKee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David McKee Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Charming and extremely complicated pop-up book has Elmer try things that
other animals can do. A giraffe and a snake can stretch so Elmer shows how he can stretch too.
And so on with a crocodile who can hide things in his mouth; a chicken who can flap her wings;
monkeys who can swing; and a leopard and zebra who can change their colors.
Very young children would need assistance operating the paper mechanisms. Another wonderful "Elmer" book by McKee. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1996 David McKee |
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Title: "I'd Choose You!" Author: John Trent Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Judy Love Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 AUthor & Illustrator |
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Title: "I'm A Big Boy Now" Potty training cartoon elephant Author: no name Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: no name Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile | Toilet training book for boys, companion to "Im A Big Girl Now". no copyright notice |
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Title: "I'm A Big Girl Now" Author: ??? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile | Toilet training book for girls, companion to "Im A Big Boy Now". no copyright notice |
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Title: "I'm Too Big - Je Suis Trop Gros" Author: Lone Morton Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Steve Weatherill Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Each page has a few words, first in English, then in French, as an elephant and a
giraffe tell each other how they would rather be like the other; a neck like yours,
ears like yours, the color you are, etc. But they like each other just as they are and finally
agree they just fine the way they are.
Book also contains: parent notes, picture dictionary, and pronunciation guide for reading the French. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1994 b small pub, Surrey England, Weatherill |
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Title: "I'm Too Big - Soy Demasiado Grande" Author: Lone Morton Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Steve Weatherill Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Each page has a few words, first in English, then in Spanish, as an elephant
and a giraffe tell each other how they would rather be like the other; a neck like yours, ears
like yours, the color you are, etc. But they like each other just as they are and finally agree
they just fine the way they are.
Book also contains: parent notes, picture dictionary, and pronunciation guide for reading the Spanish. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1994 b small pub, Surrey England, Weatherill |
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Title: "In The Wild Elephants" Author: Claire Robinson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Photo Documentary Level: Juvenile |
24 page photo documentary for young readers shows large photos of elephants
on each page with minimal text. Book describes the basics about elephant species, habitats,
diets, behavior, and general facts. It shows one photo of an Asian elephant; all the rest are
Africans.
Uses bold face to identify words in a glossary; words like 'grasslands', 'herd' and an so on. Also adequate for reading to preschool age children. WH 2000-06-01 copyright1997 Reed Educational & Professional Pubng |
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Title: "Incredible Jumbo: A Novel" Author: Barbara Smucker Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Circus Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 Barbara Smucker |
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Title: "Is That An Elephant Over There?" Author: Rebecca Elgar Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Rebecca Elgar Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Lift the flaps book for very young child; flaps reveal zebra, tiger, hippo,
lion, elephant on last page. copyright1996 Rebecca Elgar |
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Title: "Jerry Todd and the Bob-Tailed Elephant" Author: Leo Edwards Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Bert Salg Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Youth reader. Dedication; "To The Boy Scouts of St Petersburg, Florida"
This 1929 novel for boys (girls could read it too) is one of many, many by Leo Edwards and a larger stable of writers published by Grosset & Dunlap before World War II. In a nutshell the story concerns the protagonist Jerry Todd, some of his chums, and a young elephant named Bingo who mistakenly is delivered to the small town of Tutter, Illinois, as a birthday gift from an uncle to one of the boys. Some boys and the elephant 'vanish' mysteriously and the novel is devoted to explaining and solving the 'mystery'. I don't know what reviewers said about such novels in their hay day but I found it convoluted, often nonsensical, cumbersome and atrociously written. WH 2000-03-23 copyright1929 Grosset & Dunlap |
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Title: "Jumbo and Arnold" Author: Dan Greenburg Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Susan Perl Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1969 Greenburg; copyright1989 Harper & Row |
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Title: "Jumbo" Author: Rhoda Blumberg Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jonathan Hunt Basis: Non-Fiction Category: History Level: Juvenile |
First Edition factual account w/bibliography copyright1992 text Rhoda Blumberg, art Jonathan Hunt |
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Title: "Jumbo's Lullaby" Author: Laura Krauss Melmed Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Henri Sorensen (oil on canvas) Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
From the extraordinary illustrations, of which there are many, to the careful
cadence of the rhyming verse, this book is beautiful in every way.
It is a lullaby poem spoken, or softly sung, by a mother elephant to her baby Jumbo as she ultimately succeeds in lulling him into sleep. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1999 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Just a Little Bit" Author: Ann Tompert Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lynn Munsinger Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1993 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Laura Charlotte" Author: Kathryn O. Galbraith Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Floyd Cooper Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
This is a lovely personal story of four generations of women bound together
in love shown in a stuffed elephant toy made from sewing scraps by the eldest member.
The illustrations are quite beautiful. [There is a negative dimension to the publication though. They used black Times or Roman type font with light characteristics against dark backgrounds and it is not easy to read. The first rule of any written or printed matter should be legibility. A bolder, larger font or reversed white type should have been used.] WH 2000-07-13 copyright1990Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Le livre d'images de Babar" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jean-Claude Gilbert Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
In French language. Collection of objects and places with names so children
can learn language.
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Title: "Le livre surprise de Babar" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jean-Claude Gilbert Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
In French language. Has windows with surprises behind them.
Theme is Babar's birthday.
copyright Nelvana |
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Title: "Life Story Elephant" Author: Sarah Blakeman Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: James Field Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 Eagle Books |
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Title: "Little Big Ears" Author: Cynthia Moss Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Martyn Colbeck, photos Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Photo Documentary Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 Moss & Colbeck |
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Title: "Little Bull / Growing Up in Africa's Elephant Kingdom" Author: Ellen Foley James Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Photo Documentary Level: Juvenile |
Photo pictorial for children shows progress of a baby elephant from birth
through adulthood. Nicely written for very young children and with excellent photos; about
what you would expect from television's Discovery channel. The book is a companion volume
to "Africa's Elephant Kingdom".
Wh 2000-04-09 copyright1998 Discovery Communications, Inc. |
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Title: "Little Elephant" Author: Hamilton Williamson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Berta & Elmer Hader Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Cute story about a baby elephant being taught by his mother.
Charming illustrations. WH copyright1930 Doubleday & Co |
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Title: "Little Elephant Coloring Book" Author: Lucille Wallace, captions Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lucille Wallace Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready no copyright notice |
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Title: "Little Elephant Thunderfoot" Author: Sally Grindley Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: John Butler Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile [dust jacket] "Soon after Little elephant is born, he learns that his grandmother, Wise Old One, is the eyes and ears of the family. This gentle giant watches over the elephants in her herd, -- > |
showing them where to feed and where to play and warning them when danger is near.
"Then one day Wise Old One trumpets the alarm. As Little Thunderfoot follows his mother and the other elephants to safety, he hears a loud bang and sees their beloved leader fall to the ground. "Through an accurate and compelling story and the Elefacts page, Sally Grindley helps young readers understand these intelligent and fun-loving animals. "John butler's exquisite, lifelike illustrations invite young animal lovers to roam the savannahs of Africa with Little Thunderfoot and his family." copyright1996 Sally Grindley, John Butler |
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Title: "Little Elephant Visits the farm" Author: Heluiz Washburne Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jean McConnell Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Basic children's story about a child who, with his mother, spends summer
vacation on his aunt and uncle's farm. He has some adventures, learns about gardening, gets into
some childhood mischief, and all ends well. The 'people' in this story are all elephants.
Illustrations are somewhat different from most children's story books, perhaps reflecting the style popular in 1941 when it was published. WH 2000-03-23 copyright1941 Albert Whitman & Co |
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Title: "Little Elephant's Song" Author: Wolfram Hänel Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Cristina Kadmon Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
[dust jacket]
"Little elephant has learned to do many things: walk backwards, hop on three legs,
spin around like a falling leaf, and do wonderful tricks with his trunk -- catch bananas,
hold onto his mother's tail, even spray everyone with water! But there's one thing
he hasn't quite mastered: He cannot trumpet. Here is a delightful story about a fun-loving
little elephant who learns a lot -- but at his own pace! - encouraged all the way by his
proud and loving parents."
Wonderful illustrations - WH. copyright2000 Nord-Sud Vertag AG, Switzerland |
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Title: "Little Mouse & Elephant: A Tale from Turkey" Author: Jane Yolen Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: John Segal Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
A boastful mouse proclaims himself master of the forest but his grandfather
warns him the elephant is the true master.
He goes in search of an elephant, which he never seen, the show it who is boss. When the elephant sprays the little pest away with a trunkful of water, the mouse thinks it is a terrible storm. Washed away on the waters, mouse returns home and claims the elephant ran away in fear of him and to this day tells the story that way. WH 2000-09-06 copyright1996 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Look At Bump" Author: Christopher James Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Steve Augarde Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright Bump Enterprises Ltd |
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Title: "Mahatma" Author: Syd Hoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Syd Hoff Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile Mahatma is a large pink elephant who works for a lumber company in India. After years of faithful service his employer tells him to take a vacation and rest. |
His vacation experience starts out badly at the airport where he is too large
to board a plane; then on to the railroad station where again he is too large.
He settles on walking. At a golf course he ends up carrying all the equipment and the players.
After several such mishaps he goes to the jungle and rejoins his herd, hanging about nibbling
grasses and playing in the river.
Mahatma soon decides this is a pointless existence and returns to work. WH 2000-07-23 copyright1969 Syd Hoff |
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Title: "Meet Babar and His Family" Author: Laurent de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1973 Laurent de Brunhoff |
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Title: "Meet The Elephant" w/3D modeling elephant tear-out Author: Keith Faulkner Illustrated: Photographs Illustrator: Robert Morton Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Children's book of elephant facts and trivia. copyright1996 Brainwaves Limited |
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Title: "Mighty Mo: The Story of an African Elephant" Author: Jocelyn Arundel Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Wesley Dennis Basis: Fiction Category: Adventure Level: Juvenile |
This is a very fine story for young readers on through adult.
Set in Lake Manyara region of northern Kenya, it tells of a boy age 12 whose father is a
government ranger charged with care of wild animals and also control to protect villages and
farms from same.
The boy, named Jay, and his family are visited by a cousin, Suzannah, 11, from England who knows nothing of animals. During the month of her visit they have some adventures and both are changed by their encounters with animals, notably "Mighty Mohammed" the elephant and "Smudge" the baby zebra. Nicely illustrated in black and white from graphite drawings. Easy to read 125 pages. WH 2000-08-24 copyright1961 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Mumfie the Admiral" Author: Katharine Tozer Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Katharine Tozer Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
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Title: "Mumfie The Elephant" Author: Marcia Webb Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Katharine Tozer Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1977 Marcia Webb & ATV Licensing & Hamiish Tozer |
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Title: "My Elephant Book" Author: Kathleen N. Daly Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Aurelius Battaglia Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
A mother Asian elephant teaches elephant history and customs to her children.
On single pages she tells about mammoths, African species, tiger hunting, lumber harvesting and
so forth.
WH 2000-08-01 copyright1966 Western Publishing Co Inc |
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Title: "My Friend Harry" Author: Kim Lewis Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Kim Lewis; colored pencils Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
The story is simple enough and delightful about a child and his stuffed elephant.
The illustrations are nothing less than fabulous.
WH 2000-09 copyright1995 Kim Lewis |
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Title: "Nathan's Fishing Trip" Author: Lulu Delacre Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lulu Delacre Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Nathan, an elephant, is taken out in a small boat to learn how to catch fish.
His instructor is Nicholas Alexander, a mouse.
There are several mishaps including capsizing the boat but they finally catch a rainbow trout. Nathan is distressed to see such a pretty fish trapped in a bucket so they decide to eat peanut butter and cucumber sandwiches for lunch and release the trout into the lake. Nice illustrations; unusual and soft. WH 2000-08-03 copyright1988 Lulu Delacre |
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Title: "Never Mail An Elephant" Author: Mike Thaler Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 |
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Title: "Never Ride Your Elephant To School" Author: Doug Johnson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Abby Carter Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1995 Doug Johnson copyright1995 Abby Carter |
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Title: "Off To Elephant School" Author: Chris & Martin Kratt Illustrated: Photographs Illustrator: n/a Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1996 Paragon Entertainment Corp |
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Title: "Old Bet" Author: Anne Colver Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Tony Palazzo Basis: Fiction Category: History Level: Juvenile |
Based on the factual arrival in America of the elephant Old Bet in 1808,
the story centers on a young boy who accompanied her.
He was the son of a missionary couple who died of fever. The village chief arranged transport for the boy and elephant so the boy might find his family in America, which he ultimately did. Very nice for young readers. Fine black and white illustrations. Wh 2000-06-23 copyright1957 Anne Colver |
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Title: "Oliphant l'éléphant flottant" Author: Nitka Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Nitka Basis: Fiction Category: Cartoon Level: Juvenile | Text all French. Original Title: Olly Fant Goes to Sea. copyright1976 Deux Coqs d"or |
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Title: "Oliphant l'éléphant moussant" Author: Nitka Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Nitka Basis: Fiction Category: Cartoon Level: Juvenile | Text all French. Original Title: Olly Fant Takes a bath. copyright1976 Deux Coqs d"or |
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Title: "Oliphant l'éléphant roulant" Author: Nitka Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Nitka Basis: Fiction Category: Cartoon Level: Juvenile | Text all French. Original Title: Olly Fant Goes to Hospital. copyright1976 Deux Coqs d"or |
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Title: "Oliphant l'éléphanttriomphantt" Author: Nitka Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Nitka Basis: Fiction Category: Cartoon Level: Juvenile | Text all French. Original Title: Olly Fant Goes Motor racing. copyright1976 Deux Coqs d"or |
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Title: "Oliphaunt" Author: J.R.R.Tokien Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1989 Kipling Press; copyright1962 Geo.Allen & unwin |
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Title: "Ollie the Elephant" Author: Burny Bos Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Hans de Beer Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1989 Nord-Sud Verlag |
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Title: "Ollie the Elephant" Pop-Up Book Author: Burny Bos Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Hans de Beer Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 North-South Books, Inc. |
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Title: "Once There Was an Elephant" Author: Edward W. & Marguerite P. Dolch Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: William Moyers Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
This is a Dolch First Reading Book from 1961.
It uses the 95 commonest nouns and easier 110 words in the Dolch Basic Sight Words list.
Not being an educator I am guessing this is an early "Sight Reading" text as opposed to
reading via phonics.
In any case, it is a series of short fables illustrating traits and attitudes and presumably being instructive for socialization purposes. Unfortunately, in my view, the stories tend to be mean-spirited and contain events linked to hatred and death. Maybe they 'meant well' but I would not expose any child or grandchild of mine to this material written specifically for children. WH 2000-03-23 copyright1961 Edward W. Dolch |
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Title: "One Little Elephant" Author: Colin West Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Colin West Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Teaches counting up from one through ten with cartoon elephants engaged in
activities supported by rhyming words. copyright1987 Colin West |
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Title: "Pee Wee and the Sneezing Elephant" Author: Ruth A. Roche Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: David B. Icove Basis: Fiction Category: Circus Level: Juvenile |
Perhaps a child in 1944 would have found this delightful.
It seems like a silly story by contemporary standards. Not surprisingly, the art is reminiscent
of magazine ads from before World War II.
The brief story is of a tiny circus with one elephant who accidentally ingests peanuts coated with black pepper and later, during the performance, begins to sneeze enormous sneezes with bizarre effects on the other performers. WH 2000-08-06 copyright1944 S.M.Iger & Action Play-Books |
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Title: "Peel, The Extraordinary Elephant" Author: Susan Joyce Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Doug duBosque Basis: Fiction Category: Adventure Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1997 Joyce & DuBosque |
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Title: "Pink and Blue" Author: Kelli C. Foster & Gina C. Erickson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Kerri Gifford Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Polite Elephant" Golden Book Author: Western Pub Co Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1963 Western Pub Co racine WI USA |
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Title: "Poncho The Elephant Wishin' Book" Author: Rob Fink Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Eoina Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Rhyming story about an elephant who, on advice from a meddling monkey,
runs away from the zoo and joins a circus where he is worked excessively and fed poorly.
After a year of this he is able to escape and returns to the zoo to live happily ever after.
WH 2000-08-04 copyright1950 Whitehall Publishing Co |
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Title: "Pope Leo's Elephant" Author: John Lawrence Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: John Lawrence Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1969 John Lawrence |
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Title: "Premlata and the Festival of Lights" Author: Rumer Godden Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Ian Andrew Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Culture Level: Juvenile |
Story about young Indian girl living in poverty with brother and widowed mother
who befriends a rich neighbor's elephant and ultimately helps her family improve its lot.
WH 2001-09-09 copyright1996 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!" Author: Tolowa M. Mollel Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Barbara Spurll Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
An old Masai folk tale in which several animals attempt to evict a squatter
from the cave home of their friend the hare.
All quail in fear at the voice which shouts from the cave claiming it is a monster that it eats rhinos for lunch and elephants for supper. A frog disturbed form her nap by all the commotion goes to the cave and shouts in reply that she eats rhinos for breakfast, elephants for lunch, and monsters for supper. The cave monster emerges and turns out to be a caterpillar whose voice was enlarged by the cave. The frog takes him home with her to have an uninterrupted nap. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1991 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Robi Dobi" Author: Madhur Jaffrey Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Amanda Hall Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1996 Madhur Jaffrey, Amanda Hall |
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Title: "Roger and the Elephant" Author: John Kershaw Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lesley Smith Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Weekly Reader Creative Learning Program: A child, Roger, while visiting
the zoo falls into a hole being dug for a penguin pond and a zoo elephant, Jacko, who lifts
him out using its trunk then Roger helps wash Jacko and tells him he will always be the
elephant's friend.
For very young listeners. WH 2000-05-08: copyright1976 The HAmlyn Publishing Group Ltd |
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Title: "Rosie, The Dancing Elephant" Author: Maureen Daly Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lorence F. Bjorklund Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1967 Maureen Daly |
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Title: "Sacred Elephant" Author: Heathecote Williams Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: photographers Basis: Non-Fiction Category: History Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1989 Heathecote Williams |
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Title: "Saggy Baggy Elephant; No Place For Me" Author: Gina Ingoglia Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Richard Walz Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1989 Western Pub Co |
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Title: "Saggy Baggy Elephant's Birthday" Author: Western Pub Co Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 Western Pub Co Inc |
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Title: "Sassafras" Author: Stephen Cosgrove Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Robin James Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1995, 1998 Price Stern Sloan Inc |
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Title: "Som See and the Magic Elephant" Author: Jamie Oliviero Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Jo'Anne Kelly Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Som See, a young Thai girl, goes into the rain forest in search of the magical
White Elephant whose touch will assure her aunt Pang-Na a safe final journey into the afterlife.
Illustration are reproduced from batik and direct dyed silk; brilliant colors; nicely done. This story deals with death so may not be suitable for very young. WH 2000-08-07 copyright1995 AUthor & Illustrator |
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Title: "Splash" Author: Flora McDonnell Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Flora McDonnell Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Very few words in this heavily illustrated vignette of animals splashing
in the water on a hot day. Ideal for 2 to 4 year olds.
WH 2000-07-13 copyright1999 Flora McDonnell |
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Title: "Stand Back I'm Going To Sneeze" Author: Patricia Thomas Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Wallace tripp Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1971, 1990 |
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Title: "Tacky In Trouble" Author: Helen Lester Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lynn Munsinger Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Nicely illustrated, wonderfully zany, tale of Tacky an adventurous penguin who
meets an elephant named Rocky who simply adores Tacky's flower print shirt and demands to keep
it thinking it is a bunch of flowers and that Tacky is a plant.
Tacky finally convinces her by demonstrating his hopping ability all over her table, in and out of the mustard and catsup and peanut butter and marmalade and so forth until the tablecloth is a melange of wild colors. The elephant is thrilled with the decorated tablecloth and sends Tacky on his way back to the iceberg from which he came. WH 2000-07-12 copyright1998 Lester & Munsinger |
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Title: "Tantor the African Elephant" Author: Joseph Maniscalco Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Joseph Maniscalco (presumptive) Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
"Tantor the African elephant" is nicely illustrated in grayscale reproductions
of paintings. It is aimed at the early reader, say age seven and above, but could be read to
children of age four.
It is sort of a recitation of facts about Loxodonta africana told in a way appealing to children. Minor factual errors regarding the place of bulls in the herd. In a couple of places asserts that God made the elephant the way he is which is fine with me but some of you atheists and evolutionists might object to this dimension of the work for your child. WH 2000-03-11 copyright1963 Pacific Press Pub Assn |
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Title: "Terry Toots" Author: Francesco Pittau Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Bernadette Gervais Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Terry is an elephant who "toots" which is a euphemism for passing gas.
She toots so loudly and so often that friends send her away to the jungle, then they miss her
and bring her back.
They celebrate their reunion with a party where Terry fills balloons for them. WH 2000-08-15 First published in France titled "Prout". Fact: an elephant generates more than 100 gallons of methane daily. copyright1997 Chronicle (English edition) |
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Title: "The Adventures of Opal and Cupid" Author: Thomas Tryon with Clive Wilson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Rachel Isadora Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
LOC Summary: Young Opal Thigpen meets Cupid, an elephant in a traveling show, and the two have a series of adventures as they rise to stardom. copyright1992 Estate of Thos Tryon, copyrightillust by Viking |
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Title: "The Adventures of Tommy" Author: H.G. Wells Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: H.G. Wells Basis: Fiction Category: Fantasy Level: Juvenile |
Written by Wells for a child of a friend. Tommy saves the life of a rich man and gets an elephant as his reward. no copyright notice |
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Title: "The Ant & The Elephant" Author: Will Peet Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1972 Will Peet |
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Title: "The Big Elephant" Author: Kathryn & Byron Jackson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Feodor Rojankovsky Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1949 Western Pub Co |
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Title: "The Biggest Nose" Author: Kathy Caple Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Kathy Caple Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Eleanor elephant has the biggest nose of all the animals in the school and is
teased about it. Trying to make it look smaller she ties her trunk in a knot. It all gets sorted
out at the end and Eleanor accepts herself the way she is.
Nicely illustrated. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1985 Kathy Caple |
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Title: "The BLue Elephant and the Pink Pig" Author: Marion L. McNeil Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Francoise Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1931 The Saalfield Publishing Co |
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Title: "The Blue Elephant" Author: Kate Noble Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Rachel Bass Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 Kate Noble & Rachel Bass |
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Title: "The Boy Who Stole The Elephant" Author: Julilly H. Kohler Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Lee Ames Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1952 Author |
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Title: "The Case of the Great Elephant Escape" Author: June Doolittle Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
pulp fiction for youth; MaryKate & Ashley Mystery Series. Synopsis: When the circus comes to town, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, 10 year olds who believe they are detectives, help search for a missing baby elephant. Cute, easy read. WH copyright 1999 Dualstar Entertainment |
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Title: "The Copper Elephant" Author: Adam Rapp Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile Story takes place in some undefined post-cataclysmic era, presumably on earth, in which the author paints the bleakest possible picture of existence where children are enslaved workers in pits, poisonous rain falls unrelentingly, few living things exist other than humans, and general unimaginable misery prevails on every page. The author is fond of literary gimmicks such as NOT using quotation marks to identify dialogue -- > |
but rather using the conventions; I go, or, I went, or, I'm like; followed by the dialogue.
It is filled with his own version of word meanings such as quickdust, life hole, digit kids,
creature clouds, blackfrost and so forth. No prologue or epilogue sheds any light whatsoever
on the causes of the situation.
The subject of the title 'The Copper Elephant' is a large improperly made figure of an elephant as talisman. The maker is an idiot boy who cobbles together bits of aluminum foil and other metals into his version of an elephant which he believes will help him find his missing younger brother (who is dead in the pits). He takes the elephant to the top of a tree and leaves it there. The poisonous rains change its color from silver to something one of the characters describes as rust. It isn't even copper. WH 2000-04-15 copyright1999 Adam Rapp |
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Title: "The Elegant Elephant" Author: Russell McCracken Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Suzanne Suba Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Eddie, a baby elephant, wants his mother to take him away from the jungle so he
can join the circus. His mother says he must be elegant to join a circus so Eddie goes out to
learn how he could be an elegant elephant.
He envies his friend zebra's stripes so zebra paints stripes on Eddie. When Eddie arrives at the swimming hole all the children run away in fear of the strange striped beast. Even Eddie is frightened by the reflection of himself. Happily, the stripes was off in the water and Eddie is joyfully reunited with his little human friends. He decides he can be stubby and gray and still be elegant and in the end his dream comes true and he joins a circus. (Book originally contained a punch out cardboard elephant toy.) WH 2000-08-15 copyright1944 Container Corp of America |
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Title: "The Elephant - Peaceful Giant" Author: Christine & Michel Denis-Huot Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Photo Documentary Level: Juvenile |
Conservation oriented brief overview of elephant biology, behavior and habitat.
WH 2000-07-13 copyright1992 Charlesbridge Publishing |
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Title: "The Elephant Alphabet Book" Author: Gene Yates Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Gene Yates Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Each letter of the alphabet is an elephant posed in the letter shape and
accompanied by text emphasizing the use of that letter. WH copyright1995 Gene Yates & Kidsbooks, Inc. |
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Title: "The Elephant Book" Author: Charles Nicholas Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Charles Nicholas Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
In 161 words and 24 pictures, suited for reading to toddlers, shows a few common
facts about elephants and some other animals native to same habitats. Book is shaped like elephant.
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Title: "The Elephant In The Barn" Author: James Playsted Wood Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Leonard Kessler Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1961 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "The Elephant In The Dark" Author: Carol Garrick Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Donal Garrick Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Set in rural Massachusetts early 1800's. A Boy living a hard life with his
terminally ill mother happens to come to care for an Indian elephant named Toong Talong while
its owner is away over the winter.
The boy and the elephant develop an attachment and when the elephant is sold and the new owner collects her the boy, longing to be with the elephant, chases after them. It more or less works out for him. A lot of 'Dickensian' atmosphere; perhaps because the time period was as miserable as depicted. Written for young readers ... I would say ages 10 to 14 but younger kids could read it. WH 2000-06-05 copyright1988 author & illustrator |
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Title: "The Elephant Prince" Author: Flavia & Lisa Weedn Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Flavia Weedn Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright Weedn Family Trust |
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Title: "The Elephant That Ga-Lumphed" Author: Nanda Ward Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Robert Haynes Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Tajal, a young Indian elephant, likes to ga-lumph ... walk heavily instead
of lightly ... and does it everywhere to the annoyance of all his family.
He goes wandering and ga-lumphs through forest and plain and other jungle disturbing others creatures who want him to learn a lesson. The lesson comes when he encounters ferocious tiger who chases him. The tiger is joined by a water buffalo and a monkey. They are just about to catch him when he gets in the middle of an elephant race celebrating the maharajah's birthday. Tajal ends up working in the teak forest for the maharajah and is allowed to ga-lumph on special occasions only. He has learned his lesson and he is very happy with his life now that he knows there is a time to ga-lumph and a time not to ga-lumph. WH 2000-08-03 copyright1959 author & illustrator, 1964 publisher |
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Title: "The Elephant Tree" Author: Harriet Luger Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Short novel (94 pages) about group of troubled youth who get lost in the
desert and unwittingly attract their rescuers by hanging their wet clothing on an elephant
tree to dry. Lots of angst. Writing is kid level and just average. The tree and title are the
only reference to elephants ... no actual elephants in the story.
WH wh 2000-04-16 copyright1978 Harriet Mandalay Luger |
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Title: "The Elephant Who Couldn't Forget" Author: Faith McNulty Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Marc Simont Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Illustrated children's fable about a 4 year old elephant with a super memory
which he uses improperly to hold a grudge against his brother for a prank the brother played.
Grandmother teaches him that it is important to remember IMPORTANT things but he can forget the
rest.
The moral lesson is obvious to adults but may escape children who have not reached abstract reasoning levels required to make the leap in understanding. This is an "I Can Read Book" by Weekly Reader Books so is aimed at early readers. WH 2000-06-02 copyright1980 author & illustrator |
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Title: "The Elephant Who Couldn't Remember" Author: Paris Sandow & Taylor Brandon Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Paris Sandow & Taylor Brandon Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright 1994, 1996 Paris Sandow & Taylor Brandon |
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Title: "The Elephant's Child" Author: Lisa Meltzer & Pat Stewart Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: uncertain Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
based on Rudyard Kipling tale copyright1989 Checkerbaord Press div Macmillan |
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Title: "The Elephant's Dilemma" Author: ??? Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready Copyright 1946 James & Jonathan Co Kenosha |
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Title: "The Elephants' Ears" Author: Catherine Chambers Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Caroline Mockford Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Children's fable of two baby elephants who grow up and leave home after a wise
eagle finds the ideal place for each to live. On the advice of the eagle each young elephant
followed an appointed bird to a land shaped like his or her ears.
As the author says in the last sentence of the story, "And that is how the Indian elephant with its neat ears and quiet ways, and the African elephant, with its grand ears and excitable ways, found their homelands". WH 2000-09-06 copyright2000 author & illustrator |
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Title: "The Elephant's Wrestling Match" Author: Judy Sierra Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Brian Pinkney Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1992 author & illustrator |
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Title: "The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery" Author: Graeme Base Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Graeme Base Basis: Fiction Category: Activity Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1988 Doublebase Pty Ltd |
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Title: "The Firework-Maker's Daughter" Author: Philip Pullman Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: S. Saelig Gallagher Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Marvelous tale involves Hamlet, the king's talking white elephant,
who escapes with his personal servant to search for a missing friend, Lila, the firework-maker's
daughter.
It is told with humorous twists in the style of an ancient legend. The illustrations by Gallagher are extraordinarily wonderful graphite drawings which have a photographic quality and a mythical look of their own. Eminently readable by ages 10 through adult. WH 2000-07-15 copyright1995 Pullman, copyright1999 Gallagher |
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Title: "The First Elephant Comes To Ireland" Author: Nathan Zimelman Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Quentin Blake Basis: Non-Fiction Category: History Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1969 Nathan Zimelman |
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Title: "The Great American Elephant Chase" Author: Gillian Cross Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
This charming novel, set around 1900, tells about a boy of 15 years who
unintentionally escapes from a miserable existence and ends up in the company of a girl and
an elephant being chased across America by a proper villain. I won't tell you how it ends.
The writing is excellent. It is readable by children age 12 up and adults who enjoy youth adventure stories. WH 2001 copyright1992 Gillian Cross |
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Title: "The Great Big Elephant and the Very Small Elephant" Author: Barbara Seuling Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Barbara Seuling Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Three charming tales in one thin volume for reading to young children.
Great Big and Very Small elephants are neighbors and friends. In the first story, Big has to
go to Paris and perform in a circus while his cousin recovers from the mumps. Small feels
deserted and tries all kinds of ruses to forestall Big's departure.
In the second tale, Small's aunt is coming to visit and he is beside himself with fear of failing to make her visit enjoyable. Big pitches in with the cleaning, cooking, and entertaining, and the visit is a great success. In the third tale Big finds himself unable to successfully compete with Small in games requiring certain skills so he feels inadequate and depressed. But Small shows him that Big has the best skill of all; being a good and helpful friend. WH 2000-05-05 copyright1977 Barbara Seuling |
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Title: "The Little Elephant Who Liked To Play" Author: Naomi Sellers Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Yoko Mitsuhashi Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Tells of a little elephant who preferred to play rather than do what his
mother told him (as do some children) and so he gets into danger but all works out well
enough at the end.
WH 2000-05-06 copyright1985, 1974 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "The Little Elephant" Author: Arthur Gregor Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: photos by Ylla Basis: Fiction Category: Photo Documentary Level: Juvenile | Photojournalistic documentary for children. B/W photos show activities of baby elephant learning the ropes with adults and humans. copyright1956 Harper & Bros |
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Title: "The Playful Elephant" Author: Leah Gale Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Elsie darien Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Children's illustrated story about Alfie who goes off to the city to seek his
fortune. His career included; waiting tables in a restaurant, bus driver, department store manager. He couldn't hold a job because he was too playful ... snatching people's hats off for fun.
He went on a a quiz show and won a new Cadillac and other prizes. He was a big success on many quiz shows because he remembered EVERYTHING. He was so busy being successful he forgot how to play. He finally went home to mother and she helped him learn how to play again. Moral: play is good in the right place. WH copyright1970 James & Jonathan Inc |
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Title: "The Rescue of Babar" Author: Laurent deBrunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1993 deBrunhoff |
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Title: "The Riddle of the Stone Elephant" Author: Bruce Campbell Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1949 Bruce Campbell |
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Title: "The Right Number of Elephants" Author: Jeff Sheppard Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Felicia Bond Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Beautifully illustrated zany book of number counting from 10 down to 1
employs elephants in all sorts of absurd activities. Delightful.
WH 2000-07-13 copyright1990 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "The Runaway Elephant" Author: Ellen Tarry Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Oliver Harrington Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
One-day adventure story for young readers. Modoc, a circus elephant,
runs away into woods. A boy helps to bring the elephant back to the circus and receives an
undisclosed reward.
WH 2000-04 copyright1950 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "The Saggy Baggy Elephant" Author: Western Pub Co Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Publisher staff? Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
A little elephant named Sooki, who does not know what kind of animal he is,
becomes depressed and goes into hiding in shame about his saggy baggy skin and big ears which
were ridiculed by a parrot and a tiger.
In an encounter with a lion he trumpets in terror and a herd of adult elephants comes to his rescue. He discovers his own nature and lives happily ever after, the moral being self acceptance and not so much emphasis on appearance. WH 2000-06-10 |
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Title: "The Saggy Baggy Elephant" Author: Cindy West Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Mateu Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Story about Little Golden Book Land animal characters who ride train on
sightseeing trip. Tiny book in small suitcase.
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Title: "The Smallest Elephant in the World" Author: Alvin Tresselt Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Milton Glaser Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
An elephant the size of a house cat escapes the jungle to live int he city
as a pet but the child who found him's mother would not let him stay so he went to live happily
ever after in a circus with the world's smallest man.
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Title: "The Story of Babar" Author: Jean de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile The original 1933 story by Jean De Brunhoff tells how a little elephant named Babar runs away when a hunter kills his mother; ends up in a French town; meets "The Old Lady" who takes him in, teaches and clothes him and generally anthropmophizes him. -- > |
After two years his cousins Arthur and Celeste also run away and meet up with him. The process is repeated with them. Their mothers show up to scold them and take them home to elephant land. Babar decides to return as well.
Meanwhile, the elephant's king dies from poisoned mushrooms. When Babar returns he is chosen as the new king. He and Celeste marry and the story ends when they leave on their honeymoon in a balloon which story si told in "The Travels of Babar" 1934. In this story the elephants are living naturally, on all fours and naked, except that baby Babar is swinging in a hammock and Cornelius wears spectacles. Everything changes once Babar returns. WH 2000-06-10 copyright1933 Random Hse |
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Title: "The Story of Little Ajax" Author: Herbert Mayer Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Frances mayer Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
This 48 page children's story is about a young elephant named Ajax who receives
birthday gifts including a violin, a horn, a drum, stilts, skates, and skis. The story concerns
his attempts to use these items and how he learns to try and try again until he succeeds.
This volume was published by television station WXEL in Cleveland and is marked "Special Gift Edition dedicated to the young in heart of our television audience". WH 2000-03-23 copyright1949 Empire Coil Company, Inc. |
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Title: "The Travels of Babar" Author: Jean de Brunhoff Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile 1934 edition by Jean (most Babar stories are by son Laurent), translated by Merle Haas, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas who are perhaps responsible for the English grammatical structure and choice of words which are well beyond the understanding of most children. The story itself lacks the charm of later Babar stories. The elephants in the kingdom -- > |
are shown in their natural state, on all fours, except Arthur, Babar & Celeste who are clothed
and walk upright as humans.
Babar and Celeste set out on a wedding trip, or honeymoon, in a balloon which falls on a small island populated by cannibals who try to kill and eat the couple. They escape by riding on the back of a friendly but forgetful whale who leaves them stranded on a tiny desert island from which they are rescued by a passing ship and subsequently imprisoned then sold to a circus from which they escape and eventually return home to discover war and desolation which Babar the King manages to overturn and restore order and hope for the future. The text in this paper cover edition is handwritten, small, and difficult to read. WH 2000-06-10 copyright1934 Random Hse |
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Title: "The Tusk Fairy" Author: Nicola Smee Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Nicola Smee Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 author |
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Title: "The Way Home" Author: Judith Benet Richardson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Salley Mavor; fabric relief Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1991 Richardson |
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Title: "There's An Elephant in the Bathtub" Author: Roger Bradfield Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Roger Bradfield Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1964 Whitman Publishing Co |
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Title: "Thunder Cave" Author: Roland Smith Illustrated: Illustrator: Mike WImmer, Cover Image copyright1995 Basis: Fiction Category: Adventure Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1995 Roland Smith |
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Title: "Time For Bed Elephant Small" Author: Sally Grindley Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Andy Ellis Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Toddler | For ages 1 to 3 years. copyright1999 author & illustrator |
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Title: "Tinka Elephant's Nose" Author: Sue Camm Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Sue Camm Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1987 Brimax Books Ltd, Newmarket England |
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Title: "Tippu" Author: David Day Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Abigail Pizer Basis: Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright 1993 Author & Illustrator |
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Title: "Toytime" Author: Peter Haddock Ltd Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Peter Haddock Ltd Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
A teddy bear gets all the toys to play outdoors together.
Stuffed elephant swings and other toys do other things. The cover is die-cut latex in the shape
of an elephant.
WH 2000-07-12 copyright Peter Haddock Ltd |
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Title: "Travelers By Night" Author: Vivien Alcock Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Adventure Level: Juvenile |
Junior Literary Guild Selection. Two youngsters run away with an elephant to protect her from being turned into dog food when a circus goes broke. Nicely written and plotted. Ideal for young readers. WH 2000-04 copyright1983 Vivien Alcock |
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Title: "Tum Tum The Jolly Elephant" Author: Richard Barnum Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Harriet h Tooker Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
This book, written for children and published in 1915, has a certain charm
about it perhaps because of the early 20th century language style. It tells of an elephant
named Tum Tum from his early life in the wild, capture, training, working in teak forests,
then joining a circus where he was a star.
The chapters chronicle his various adventures and a smattering of real facts about elephants and other animals are scattered here and there. Rather delightful reading for ages 8 and up or can be read to younger children. Book is long out of print but may be found through searches. WH 2000-04 copyright1915 Barse & Hopkins |
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Title: "Tusk And Stone" Author: Malcom Bosse Illustrated: Illustrator: n/a Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile Dust Jacket: " 'You're a soldier, bought and paid for.' So his captors tell Arjun, a boy approaching manhood and a member of the priestly ans scholarly Brahmin class. The caravan taking him to begin his formal studies was attacked, his uncle killed, and his beloved sister -- > |
kidnapped. Arjun is spared,
only to be drugged by a nefarious old man, shorn of his identifying topknot, and put in shackles,
the mark of a foot soldier and slave. Desperate to find his sister but resigned to the inevitable,
Arjun accepts his new life and trains to be a mahout, an elephant driver in the army. His valor
make shim famous, and his quest to find his sister is spread throughout the land in ballads
written about his exploits. But fame is perilous: Arjun is struck down once again, and he must
try to make the best of what fate has dealt him. How a young man alone in the world makes his
way through hardship and adventure is the subject of this compelling novel which offers an
extraordinary detailed evocation of the religious and cultural milieu of seventh century India."
copyright1995 Mark Elliot Bosse |
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Title: "Uncle Elephant" Author: Arnold Lobel Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Author Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile | An I Can Read Book® Grades 1-3, Level 2 copyright1981 author |
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Title: "Walt Disney's Dumbo" Author: Rita Balducci, adapted by Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Phil Ortiz & Diana Wakeman Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1992 Walt Disney Co |
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Title: "We'll Ride Elephants Through Brooklyn" Author: Susan L. Roth Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Susan L. Roth Basis: Fiction Category: Story Level: Juvenile |
A brief series of illustrated statements of hope about what a family will do when Grandpa recovers his health. It ends with the words, "and we did." which must mean Grandpa recovered.
The dust jacket back flap shows a photo, uncaptioned, taken by Alex Roth, of a child, an old man, and a woman, with a large plastic elephant, large enough for the child to ride. The book does not explain itself any further than that yet it is somehow quite touching. The original illustrations apparently were done with paper collage technique. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1989 Susan L. Roth |
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Title: "When An Elephant Goes Shopping" Author: Wendy Cheyette Lewison Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Roz Schanzer Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1988 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. |
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Title: "When The Elephant Walks" Author: Keiko Kasza Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: ??? Basis: Fiction Category: Fable Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1990 Keiko Kasza |
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Title: "Where, Oh, Where's My Undewrwear?" Author: Barney Saltzberg Illustrated: Pop-ups Illustrator: Barney Saltzberg Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Synopsis or review not ready copyright1994 Barney Saltzberg |
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Title: "Whispers, The Story of A Baby Elephant" Author: Dereck & Beverly Joubert Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: no photo credits Basis: Fiction Category: Conservation Level: Juvenile |
Based on the motion picture "Whispers"
Back Cover: "Whispers the elephant is still a baby when poachers bring down his entire family. His only hope for survival is if he can find another family that will adopt him. Luckily, Whispers meets up with one, but its leader, Half Tusk, won't let him join her herd. Only Groove, Half Tusk's sister, will help him. Together, they face each danger, and form a bond that can only be broken by death. The poignant and heartwarming tale follows Whispers as he discovers his own voice in an often terrifying -- but ultimately beautiful -- world." NOTE: shows photos of dead elephants. copyright1998 Dereck & Beverly Joubert, Text |
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Title: "Why Do Elephats Wear Purple Suspenders?" Author: Judy Ziegler Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Judy Ziegler Basis: Fiction Category: Humor Level: Juvenile |
Subtitle: "My First Jokes And Riddles" is a collection of silly riddles about
animals. WH 2000-08-04 copyright1992 RGA Publishing Group, Inc. |
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Title: "Wild Baby Animals - Elephant" Author: Jinny Johnson Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Ch'en-Ling Basis: Non-Fiction Category: Nature Level: Juvenile |
Lovely little book shows the behaviors and needs of a baby elephant with combined
photos and illustrations and brief text panels.
WH 2000-09-22 copyright1999 Marshall Editions Developments Ltd |
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Title: "Zelda's Secret" Author: Pascal Lemaitre Illustrated: Yes Illustrator: Pascal Lemaitre Basis: Fiction Category: Teaching Level: Juvenile |
Nicely illustrated lesson tale about secrets in which the elephant Zelda
shares her secret dream to be a ballerina with her best friend who tells just one more animal
who tells two more and soon the entire jungle knows and is laughing at Zelda.
The wise old owl casts a brief tongue-tying spell on the animals and persuades Zelda to practice her dancing resulting in great success. WH 2000-07-13 copyright1994 Rainbow Grafics Intl |
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