Ava's Elephant Family Escapades Across The Ocean Analysis

Ava’s Elephant Family Escapades Across The Ocean

Book #2

The seas were calm and blue as Grammy and the four royal elephants sailed to America from Africa. Goldie, Jade, Cherry and Pumpkin saw amazing sights while crossing the vast ocean. One day, Cherry was gazing at the rolling sea when she was startled by the appearance of a strange creature staring back at her from beneath the clear water of the ocean. The creature looked like a beautiful young human being who had a fish tail! Cherry spoke in her elephant language to the fish girl , “ who and what are you?” The creature replied, “I am Caitlyn, the mermaid of the ocean. Do not be fearful of me. I am here to accompany you and your family across the seas to Princess Ava’s home in a place

The humans just thought the elephants liked to have fun sitting on the rails and they laughed at the elephants’ antics. At times , the waves were so high it helped clean their bottoms. Elephants drink a lot of water and Grammy had to have many gallons of water brought onto the ship for the elephants to drink before they set sail. Pumpkin bragged, “ I can drink 55 gallons of water in less than five minutes!” Jade said, “yes you can, but Grammy says we should only drink 18 gallons of water each day to make it last the thirty days out on the ocean.” The elephants enjoyed their trip and saw whales swimming by as well as dolphins, sharks and huge turtles. Grammy would point the creatures out to them and tell them what their names were. The largest sea creature Grammy pointed out to them, was the blue whale. Grammy told them the blue whale was the largest mammal in the

Elephants can eat up to 350 pounds of food every day. So every day they ate and the weight of the ship got lighter as the food became depleted. Ethan, the sea dragon , swam up to the bow of the ship and hollered up to the elephants. He asked, “ Do you want to come in and swim?” Jade, Pumpkin, Cherry and Goldie all shook their heads no. They were too afraid to jump into the deep ocean without being able to touch the bottom of it. Grammy yelled to Ethan to wait until they reached Florida. There, they could jump in and swim to shore. Ethan was happy to hear