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3) Elephants
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An introduction to Indian and African elephants, including what they eat, how they live, and how they are captured and tamed.
4) Elmer
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All the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was a patchwork of brilliant colors until the day he got tired of being different and making the other elephants laugh.
7) Oliver
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Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
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The author, a naturalist and conservationist, made an amazing discovery about how elephants communicate. In 1984, she visited the elephants at Washington Park Zoo in Portland, Oregon. She had been studying whale songs for the last fifteen years, and she was curious about the ways that elephants, the largest living land mammals, communicated with each other. What was observed in the first week seemed, at the time, to be little cause for scientific...
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Ruby’s story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby’s caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob. In the timeless way that only Katherine Applegate could craft,...
13) Seven blind mice
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Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.
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"A playful pachyderm named Horton becomes a reluctant hero when he discovers the microscopic city of Who-ville on a floating speck of dust and embarks on a hilarious adventure to save the town from the dangers of the jungle. It's a heartwarming hit comedy for the whole family"--Container.
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An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief. Pages in back of book contain clues for each illustration to discover who ate the birthday feast.
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Zoe loves living at her uncle's rescue zoo because there's always something exciting going on. And Zoe also has an amazing secret - she can actually talk to the animals! Zoe can't believe how playful the new baby elephant is. But rushing about everywhere can be dangerous, and one day he gets into terrible hot water.
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