Books with title Elephant Shrews

Elephants have lived on Earth for million of years. Yet due to illegal hunting and the destruction of their natural habitat, today they are among the most endangered of species. This informative photo essay follows this intelligent giant's day-to-day life and behavior, both in captivity and in the wild. With forty striking full-color photographs, Elephant offers youngsters a fascinating view of this largest of all land animals.

If his sixteen years of experience has taught Mikey Alston only one thing, it’s this:Life is too damn cruel to face alone…The ice took our car off the road.The tree wrecked it.Tate and I didn’t make it out unscathed.My parents didn’t make it out alive…I was eleven, and that’s the day my whole world was ripped away from me.My brother, David, was twenty-one. All the family I had left, I needed him. He didn’t need me.David sent me away. Packed me off far across the country from my home town in Devon – from Tate and everything I’d ever known, to live with grandparents I’d never known. Six years is a long time. But now I’m back.(Not through choice. Not mine, anyway).And Tate’s still here.Only… he’s not the boy I left behind.He won’t speak to me. Won’t speak to anyone.The one upshot of my return to a life I no longer fit and he’s letting me down spectacularly.Well, Tate, here’s the thing:I’m not giving up on you. I’m not everybody else. You can’t shut me out. You need me – we need each other. And we will be friends again. Best friends.I’m decided.It’s decided.

This brand-new title in the Wiggle-Waggles board books series features a cheerful Elephant's face on the front cover. It's constructed of layered board sections that create an amusing 3D effect. When kids move Elephant's ears back and forth his mouth moves and he munches on leaves. Children can also touch furry patches in some of the illustrations. The funny story is written in verse, with bright, full-color illustrations on every sturdy board page.

Watch Me Grow, a groundbreaking series from DK, brings readers ages 5 and up into the fascinating world of animal development. Close-up photographs give children an animal's eye-view of growing up, while simple, first-person text and fact boxes explain what is happening at each stage in the lives of different kinds of animals. Watch Me Grow introduces beginners to the cycle of life with gorgeous photography and accessible information. It's the next big thing in first natural history books.

Imaginative young minds will love this bold, contemporary picture book about a boy and his rather unusual best friend. A young boy spends his day playing games with his imaginary friend, Elephant. Real or not, when Grandma and Grandpa are busy, Elephant proves to be the perfect playmate! Illustrated with Petr Horacek's distinctive and beautiful collage style, this title encourages imaginary play as a young boy spends the day playing games with his imaginary friend, the Elephant.

Follow one newborn elephant calf from her birth on the African savannah to her first days with the herd, feeding, playing in the waterholes, and meeting other young elephants. Young readers get to see the young elephant developing and growing until she is able to survive without her mother in her challenging African habitat, playing her part in the life of the herd until she is ready to have a calf of her own.

Plenty of natural history books look at animal life from an outsider's viewpoint. Now it's time for some inside knowledge! A narrative diary text combined with up-to-date scientific knowledge to provide an entertaining andinformative account of the daily lives of these creatures.My name is Elephant and this is my very own diary. Please read it so you can find out all about - ME! I'll tell you about my life here on the African savannah and introduce you to my amazing family. You can find out how much we eat every day - it's a lot! - and what we elephants are actually afraid of.I hope you enjoy my diary - I wrote it with a bit of help from a human called Steve Parker.