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How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild

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Binding: Hardcover
Picture Books
List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $4.00 $3.37 USD
Sale Price: 3.03 USD
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ISBN: 9781626721784
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Language: English
Page Count: 48
Publication Date: 9/19/2017
Size: 11.25" l x 8.76" w x 0.34
Series: N/A

Category Subject
Children Nonfiction Animals
The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?

An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary to keep up, from projecting her voice across a 10-octave range to using the 100,000 muscles in her trunk to stay hydrated. But this giant-to-be has the perfect classroom--a family herd made up of her mother, sisters, cousins, and aunts. With their help and protection, she'll learn how to survive, how to thrive, and how to be an elephant.

Award-winning author-illustrator Katherine Roy's How to Be an Elephant delves into the intricate family dynamics at play in a typical African herd. Drawing upon the latest scientific research and Roy's own expedition to Kenya, and brimming with lush watercolor illustrations and detailed diagrams, this book vividly portrays the life and development of an elephant from an uncertain newborn into a majestic adult. As informative as it is beautiful, Roy's unique portrait of an elephant's life will captivate young explorers and animal lovers alike.

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