Composite elephant, Mughal, reign of Akbar, c. 1590Composite elephant, Mughal, c. 1600Demons and composite elephant, Murshidabad, Bengal, 18th centCafé Collas, the Best of All Coffees (France, 1900s. Unknown artist)
A TRUNK CALL! (1950s)
"Stop tickling!" Milly bear exclaimed,
As she sat in a tree.
But billy Bear, who sat with her,
Declared: "It isn't me!"
"Of course it is!" shrieked Milly Bear,
And wriggled like an eel.
"Hee! Hee! Ho-ho! Ha-ha-ha-HA!
"You don't know HOW I feel!"
She kept both eyes quite tightly shut,
And so she never knew,
The tickler was big JumboJim,
Who slyly hid from view.
"Of course it wasn't Jumbo Jim!"
She shrilled at Billy Bear.
"Do YOU think I would not have known,
"An ELEPHANT was there?"
Bill Peet, 1941 DumboFootwear Salescat one of many characters from Rogue’s Gallery, 1969 written and illustrated by Edgar Parkerママだいすき 1979 (I Love You, Mummy)Little Brown Monkey by Elizabeth Upham, illustrated by Marjorie Hartwell 1949Charles Saxon 1938おいしいゾウの大パーティー パウル・ビーヘル バブス・ファン・ウェリ 1980Story Poems 2 by Peter Neumeyer and Robert Pierce 1973おじいさんのぶどう からーぶっくふろーら こばやしかずこ 1968Lelebum by Binette Schröder (Japanese language edition)ぞうのはなくるくる 古川タク 1982
It’s been almost a year since Sila’s mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States.
The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places.
A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans
“Successful Hunt” Illustrator Aminadav Kanevsky, 1960sBilly Fishbone And Other Sea Stories Martin Waddell, Illustrated By Reg Cartwright, Addison Wesley Longman Limited, 1994Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen’s jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang?João da Câmara Leme, Girl and Elephant
An elephant never forgets…but Lexington Willow can’t remember her past. When she was a toddler, a tornado swept her away from everyone and everything she knew and landed her near an enclosure in a Nebraska zoo, where an elephant named Nyah protected her from the storm. With no trace of her family, Lex grew up at the zoo with her foster father, Roger; her best friend, Fisher; and the wind whispering in her ear.
Now that she’s twelve, Lex is finally old enough to help with the elephants. But during their first training session, Nyah sends her a telepathic image of the woods outside the zoo. Despite the wind’s protests, Lex decides to investigate Nyah’s message and gets wrapped up in an adventure involving ghosts, lost treasure, and a puzzle that might be the key to finding her family. Can Lex summon the courage to hunt for who she really is–and why the tornado brought her here all those years ago?
Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures
When looking at historic records of all kinds—from prehistoric cave drawings and ancient rock art in Africa and India, from poetic narrations of travelers to hunter memoirs and press stories about zoos, from reports of mystical graveyards to museum warehouses collecting bones—notions about elephants in the West have come a long way. These ideas (their transformation; their persistence) tell perhaps more about how Western cultures have understood themselves than about the actual lives and potential histories of proboscideans. In Elephant Trails: A History of Animals and Cultures (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021), Nigel Rothfels follows the paths of concrete elephant lives, their struggles and their deaths, in order to produce a history of one particular elephant, that which inhabits Western mentalities up to the present and which is composed as much of fantasy as thick skin.
In this conversation, Dr. Rothfels expands on some of the tenets of this book, as well as the trails that he himself followed in order to better understand how present notions about elephants in the West have been historically configured. This is a history of ideas about the magnificent animal we call the elephant, threaded with stories of flesh and blood.
Orlando’s Evening Out by Kathleen Halefrom ‘Goliath II’ by Bill Peet (1915-2002) Blackie’s Boys’ Annual 1938 opposite p197 The leader of the herd by Raymond Sheppard Three Tall Tales (1947) Helen Sewell and Eleska elephantTransformation booklets were issued from the Kellogg Company given in the store when one bought a Kellogg cereal box elephantfrom a French book called Les péripéties de l’aviation (Adventures in Aviation) from 1911 and by the Spanish artist J. Xaudaró (in full Joaquín Xaudaró y Echau)OLLI, DER KLEINE ELEFANT (1989) Hans de Beerfrom What Do Say Dear A Book of Manners for All Occasions, by Sesyle Jolson, Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, 1958JUFFROUW SPITS OP REIS [c. 1948] Piet BroosTONY SARG’S BOOK OF ANIMALS (1925) Tony Sarg The 1975 Childcraft Annual Jiří Trnka, 1962Otto NielsenPeter Newell, 1902 edition of Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll. Alice sees some unusual pollinators: “..poking its proboscis into them, `just as if it was a regular bee,’ thought Alice.”Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970) The Saggy Baggy ElephantEdward Julius Detmold (British painter) 1883 – 1957, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad The SailorEddie Elephant written & illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1921Aesop illustrated by Arthur RackhamKodomo no kuni (“Children’s Land”), 1922–30From Uncle Oojah’s Ostrich Farm, written by Flo Lancaster, illustrated by Thomas MaybankArt by Anne Anderson (1930’s) elephantJ.P. Miller (1951)John Dukes McKee, The Big Show, 1933Franklin Booth (1874-1948) Edward Detmold (1883 – 1957) 1924 illustration The Roc which fed its young on elephants for Arabian NightsSmallness by Matthew Burgess, illustration by Kris Di GiacomoBabar le little elephant from original edition, 1931Babar le little elephant from original edition, 1931Babar le little elephant from original edition, 1931Babar le little elephant from original edition, 1931Abécédaire de Babar, 1934ぞうさんばばーる ジャン・ドゥ・ブリュノフ 1960 (Japanese edition)The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff, publ. 1933. Babar marries CelesteFrom Brunhoff, Jean, BABAR and his Children, 1953The Elephant’s Poo ぞうのうんこ 1997Little Dumbo seizes the opportunity to visit his mum, whilst a far-from-perceptive guard snoozes… Rare concept art by Mary Blair. 1941The Barnabus Project by The Fan BrothersRailroad Magazine July 1946
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
