Grandma Elephant's in Charge: Read and Wonder

By Jenkins and Martin Jenkins

Book Overview

"With relaxed, informal words and realistic illustrations, this boisterous picture book brings children close to exciting facts about African elephants in the wild." - BOOKLIST Elephants are the biggest animals on land, and they live in big families, too. So who can keep them in line? Grandma! In lively prose interspersed with fun facts, Martin Jenkins spins a striking story about this no-nonsense matriarch and her remarkable brood, while Ivan Bates brings the great beasts to rumbling, tumbling, lumbering life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763632856
• ISBN13: 9780763632854
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.9" x 0.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

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I love this book. Told as a story, GRANDMA ELEPHANT'S IN CHARGE emphasizes the elephant social structure and it also packs in a lot of zoological information about elephant characteristics and habitat. Two fonts are used to distinguish the main story from the labels or added information. The illustrations are warm blue and earth tone paintings. There is an additional paragraph "About Elephants" at the end of the book as well as an index. Karen Woodworth-Roman, Children's Science Book Review