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How to be an elephant growing up in the African wild

"This nonfiction picture book follows an elephant's growth from a newborn calf to a full-grown adult in one of the most socially and structurally complex family groups on earth."-- Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roy, Katherine (Author, Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : David Macaulay Studio, Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	African elephant > Juvenile nonfiction. Elephants > Infancy > Juvenile nonfiction. Elephants > Juvenile nonfiction. Grassland animals > Africa > Juvenile nonfiction. Savanna ecology > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	"This nonfiction picture book follows an elephant's growth from a newborn calf to a full-grown adult in one of the most socially and structurally complex family groups on earth."-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Audience:	Age 7-11.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page [43]).
ISBN:	9781626721784 1626721785
Author Notes:	Katherine Roy is the award-winning author and illustrator of Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands and How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild . She is also the illustrator for the Expeditioners series by S. S. Taylor and of Buried Beneath Us by Anthony Aveni. She loves science, history, and big adventures, and is endlessly fascinated by the way things live. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, she currently lives in with her husband and young son in Oregon, where she's still learning how to be a human. You can visit her website to learn more about her work, her research, and African elephants.