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Bookshelf: January 2011

Elephants

Elephants

by David Henry Wilson
photographs by Steve Bloom
Thames and Hudson, 2007

Although it’s subtitled A Book for Children, this beautiful, oversize tribute to the elephant will entrance elephant lovers of all ages. Unlike this month’s issue of Click, the book treats not only how elephants live together in a herd but also such topics as diet, body parts, and interactions with people. Instead of telling a narrative, the entertaining text provides friendly snippets of information pitched perfectly for its intended audience. Even more compelling are the 80 amazing photographs. Very young children won’t even need to hear the text and will still enjoy paging through this extraordinary elephant photo album.


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