Book Description
for If You Were an Elephant by Leslie Staub and Richard Jones
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
“If you were an elephant, you’d be the biggest animal who lives on the land. You’d have ears big as tent flaps, skin thick as blanket. You’d turn the next page with your trunk, not your hand.” An informative picture book provides ample details about elephants, especially as they live in the wild, while also inviting imaginative play, since the engaging, second-person narrative makes it hard to resist pretending to be an elephant, at least for a little while. Details about elephant appearance, behavior, and relationships are all featured in a picture book set against painted and digitally edited art reminiscent of block prints and colored to echo earth tone shades of a savanna. (Ages 3-7)
CCBC Choices 2022. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2022. Used with permission.