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Horn Book ' s review praised the art, "where the brightly colored mice cavort against black backgrounds", and called the elephant's design "striking". [2] A review for the School Library Journal also praised the book's art, saying the collage was "vibrant", and its use on a completely black background resulted in a "strong visual impact." [3]
Watercress is a children's book written by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Jason Chin, and published on March 30, 2021 by Neal Porter Books. In 2022, the book won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Picture Book, Caldecott Medal, and Newbery Honor. [1] [2] [3]
The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base. In it, Horace the Elephant holds a party for his eleventh birthday, to which he invites his ten best friends (various animals) to play eleven games and share in a feast that he has prepared. However, at the time they are to eat—11:00—they are startled to ...
The content is presented as a series of questions pertaining to the subject of the particular chapter of the books. Amid the questions, pictures and photographs, there are details from established comic strips and complete comic strips, occasionally with its dialogue adjusted to the chapter's theme.
Modoc is a book written by American writer Ralph Helfer and published in 1998. It tells the true story of a boy and an elephant, and their fight to stay together across three continents. It tells the true story of a boy and an elephant, and their fight to stay together across three continents.
An 1899 newspaper correspondent [14] and Sir Theodore James Tasker, in an article published by the Kipling Society in 1971 suggested that "Petersen Sahib, the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India" in the Jungle Book story, Toomai of the Elephants by Rudyard Kipling, was a reference to George Peress Sanderson.
Etched in local memory for generations, the tale of Nancy the circus elephant says that she died from yew leaf poisoning on the outskirts of Bristol 130 years ago, and was buried outside a church ...
Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo starts with a boy, Will Robert, riding an elephant along a beach, whilst on holiday in Indonesia. Will is grieving for his father, Robert, who died in the Iraq War. The elephant, Oona, is in an odd mood that day: her handler mentions that she refused to go into the sea for her usual morning dip.