Elephants of Africa

The always-reliable Gail Gibbons has updated her Elephants of Africa picture book, originally published in 2008, with additional information. As always, her detailed watercolor images fill each page with animals that move and almost seem to be alive. A good introduction to the subject, this picture......more

While I think that the art in here definitely demonstrates that Gibbons has improved significantly from her earlier work, I'm not a huge fan of this one. The text is decently put together, although I was confused if it intended to be linear or rhisomatic without headings for each page. My general co......more

This book is a really great book if you are wanting to teach your class on Elephants. It is completely full of facts that you may or may not have known about them. The pictures in the book were great. It went throughout the whole life cycle of an Elephant. There was additional information on the pag......more

My six year old daughter had her school librarian help her select a book for us to read together about elephants because we both love them… this was truly appropriate for her to stay engaged while I read out loud for us and not get lost in “too much information”- just enough to encourage conversatio......more

Definately my favorite mammals 😊🏝🐘......more