In this, Jenni Desmond’s third nonfiction children’s book about one of the large, endangered animals of Earth, we join a young boy as he learns about The Elephant. From Africa to Asia, the elephant makes its home. Light on their feet, despite...

A delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure from prize-winning novelist José Saramago In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. In José Saramago's remarkable and...

This issue of Elephant poses the question: "Is finding pictures more fun than making them?" Find out how Elephant answers that question.Elephant? a quarterly magazine from the makers of Frame?focuses its keen eye on art and visual culture. Lately,...

"McKee's gentle humor and love of irony are in full force in this celebration of individuality and laughter." —Publishers WeeklyElmer the elephant is bright-colored patchwork all over. No wonder the other elephants laugh at him!If he were...

The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?An infant elephant has precious little time to learn...

After seeing some children on their way to school, Elephant decides he wants to go to school...

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In I Broke My Trunk! Gerald tells Piggie the long, crazy story about breaking his trunk....

When you are a female born into a poor Indian family, the odds are already stacked greatly against you.The human drama captured in this memoir is nothing short of amazing – the struggle between the two worlds of one’s existence. Written with...

Ai Weiwei installation in Copenhagen, Micah Lidberg's feast and famine, following art and craft with embroidery, interviews with Lauren DiCioccio, new works by Chris Burden, and an art tour through Zurich.Elephant? a quarterly magazine from the...

Triceratops has an itch. . . so does Pterodactyl. . . and Brontosaurus. . . and T-Rex! But DINOSAURS DO NOT SCRATCH. There is a rule written in stone. What is an itchy dinosaur to...

A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve one’s overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, MD—physician and Zen teacher—has developed a series of simple practices to help us...

New, and pristine; see scans and description. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2017. The August, 2017 issue of the National Geographic magazine, that being Volume 232, Number 2. The Space Issue. Quarto, photo-illustrated perfect-bound...

A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking...

Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the...

Nicola Hicks's sculpture and drawing practice has focused upon heroic, humanized animals and mythic, beast-like humans. From the moment she burst upon the wider public stage, there has been no doubting her remarkable talent. Picked out while still...

Fishing for elephants explains the creative processes of art and life with a conversational, humorous, and informative voice. While it is geared towards artists, it is not a how to paint something to look like something book. It’s a how to think...

Fishing for elephants is written by Larry Moore, a nationally recognized artist/illustrator. It explains the creative processes of art and life with a conversational, humorous, and informative voice. It’s not a how to paint something to look...

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What is a worldview? What lies behind your thoughts about almost everything? For more than thirty years, James W. Sire has grappled with this issue. In his widely used textbook The Universe Next Door, first published in 1976, Sire offered a...

What if? Why not? Could it be?When a fortune teller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchenne knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her?...

Beauty is Embarrassing: The Wayne White Story, mixing surfaces, Fionn McCabe, a healthy dose of obsession, beyond the comfort zone, drawing as performance, postcards from transitional space, spotlight on San Francisco, and a genealogical case...