At current poaching rates, many wild African species may disappear within our lifetime. This includes elephants. What many do not know about elephants is they live in families just like we do! They are the largest land mammals, and their herds consist of aunts and cousins who help care for and teach the younger elephants. Elephants also grieve like us, shed tears and even try to bury their dead. The poaching of elephants must stop, but how can we do this? Perhaps we can learn a lesson from the monkey, giraffe, horse, bee, the lion, the cow and the hippopotamus in this story!

Written and illustrated by award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan, use this kid-sized ‘learn to read’ book with its extra large print to practice your reading skills through word recognition, word repetition and rhyme. Then begin the discussion about what can be done to help endangered, threatened species, and learn all you can about them. Help Larry the elephant and other animals like him to survive. And when you are finished reading and talking about endangered species, watch the free music video that goes with this book on Bellissimavideo’s YouTube channel.