Summary Of The Book 'Elephant Walk'

The three books I chose for my Nonfiction series all pertain to Elephants. Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. The largest elephant on record was an adult male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall. Elephants can live to be over 70 years old.

The first book I chose is called “Elephant Walk” written by Jean Craighead George and illustrated by Anna Vojtech. This book was published in 1998 by Hyperion Books for Children. Elephant Walk is geared towards students in Prek-3rd grade. This book talks about the journey of female elephants and their young. The book does a great job explaining what elephants do throughout the day and their life. Children will really enjoy this book because it primarily

This book is a true story about three zoo elephants and their rescue from captivity. This book could be read independently by a third grader. This book could be implemented in 1st and so on. This book discusses why Elephants shouldn’t be kept in captivity. Elephants can walk up to 50 miles a day and when kept in captivity they don't have that opportunity. Climate is very important to elephants they are used to dry and warm weather. When kept in enclosed spaces elephants become weak, out of shape and ill. The book talks about how these three elephants were rescued and transported into better living conditions. I like that in the back of the book it gives a bunch of different facts about elephants. I think it’s important to talk to young ones about what captivity actually does to animals. Our future students shouldn't think that animals live and come from the zoo. We need to teach them why they live in the wild and what it does for our planet and what happens when we remove them from it. I would incorporate this into my third grade classroom by assigning each student an animal that lives in a zoo. Then I would have them make a chart about why it's good from them to be in zoo versus why it is