Top 50 Reasons to Care About Elephants
Introduce readers to the largest land animals on earth. Besides being well known for their huge size and long trunks, elephants possess many other unique traits that make them special. Do your readers know elephants live longer than any other mammals except humans? Or that their feet change size when they walk? Like people being right-handed or left-handed, elephants can be right-tusked or left-tusked. Readers learn fifty fun facts about elephants that make these magnificent creatures worth saving from extinction and how they can help.
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Top 50 Reasons to Care About Endangered Animals series. Information about each animal is divided into fifty sections, each with a sensationalized title (e.g., "Reason to Care #41: Poaching Can Be Stopped"). Though not always well captioned, plenty of photos accompany the generally solid information, which includes descriptions of relevant subspecies and suggestions on how to "help save" the animal. There are four other spring 2010 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind., The Horn Book Guide Fall 2010