Author: Donna M. Jackson
Title: The Elephant Scientist
Illustrator: Timothy Rodwell
Readability Score: Grades 3-5
Genre: Non-Fiction
Sub genre: Informational
Theme: an informational view on how elephants live
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Awards: Robert F. Sibert, American Library Association Notable Books for Children Award
Publishing company: Houghton Miffilin Harcourt Publishing Company
Date of publication: 2011
ISBN number: 0-547-05344-4
Summary: This picture book takes a look into what it would be like to study elephants in Africa. It follows Cailtin O'Connell on her journey as she studies the social life of elephants and their means of communication. She also works on ways to prevent them from ruining the local's crops. She also explains how elephants can communicate with one another by feeling the vibrations in the ground by using their feet and trunks. It takes us through the information that pertains to elephants in Africa in graphic pictures and environments.
This is a good, visual book on the lives on elephants and the sciences that revolve around them. The author discusses the communication, social lives, and way of life for the elephants as she studied them. She also provides a look at the environment and ways to protect it, while protecting the elephants. This would be a good book to jump into that relates to the study of Africa, its environment, and studying the elephants.
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