• READ, WATCH, LEARN

  • RECOMMENDED READING: ADULTS

    • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans de Waal, W.W. Norton, 2017.
    • Coming of Age With Elephants: A Memoir, Joyce Poole, Hyperion Press, 1997.
    • Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II, Vicki Constantine Croke, Random House, 2014.
    • An Elephant In My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage, and Survival, Francoise Malby-Anthony, Macmillan, 2018.
    • Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family, Cynthia Moss, University of Chicago Press, 1988.
    • The Elephant Whisperer, Lawrence Anthony, Macmillan Publishers, 2009.
    • Gods in Shackles: What Elephants Can Teach Us About Empathy, Resilience, and Freedom, Sangita Iyer, Hay House LLC, 2022.
    • I Dreamed of Africa, Kuki Gallman, Penguin, 1991.
    • The Last Elephants, Compiled by Don Pinnock & Colin Bell, North America by Smithsonian Books, 2019.
    • Leaving Time, Jodi Picoult, Ballantine Books, 2014.
    • Love, Life, and Elephants: An Elephant Love Story, Daphne Sheldrick, Penguin, 2012.
    • Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell us About Ourselves, Frans de Waal, W.W. Norton, 2020.
    • The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary, Godine, 2018.
    • When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & Susan McCarthy, Random House, 1995.
    • 50 Ways to Save Elephants (And Save the World), Cider Hill Press, 2018.

    RECOMMENDED READING: CHILDREN

    Fiction

    • A Parade of Elephants, Kevin Henkes, HarperCollins, 2018. (Preschool)
    • Ellison the Elephant, Eric Drachman, Kidwick Books, 2004. (Preschool/elementary school)
    • Little Elephants, Graeme Base, Abrams, 2012. (Elementary school)
    • When Anju Loved Being an Elephant, Wendy Henrichs, Sleeping Bear Press, 2011. (Elementary school)
    • One Amazing Elephant, Linda Oatman High, HarperCollins, 2017. (Elementary school)
    • What Elephants Like, Joel Lugar, Born Free USA, 2015. (Elementary school)
    • Elephant Secret, Eric Walters, Houghton Mifflin, 2018. (Elementary/middle school)
    • The Magician’s Elephant, Kate Dicamillo, Candlewick Press, 2009. (Elementary/middle school)
    • The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate, HarperCollins, 2012. (Elementary/middle school)

    Nonfiction

    • A Baby Elephant in the Wild, Caitlin O’Connell, Houghton Mifflin, 2014. (Preschool/elementary school)
    • 10 Reasons to Love an Elephant, Catherine Barr, France Lincoln Children’s Books, 2017. (Elementary school)
    • A Passion for Elephants, Toni Buzzeo, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2015. (Elementary school)
    • Elephants, Seymour Simon, HarperCollins, 2018. (Elementary school)
    • Elephant Journey: The True Story of the Rescue of Three Zoo Elephants and Their Rescue from Captivity, Rob Laidlaw, Ingram Publishers, 2016. (Elementary/middle school)
    • Elephants Walk Together, Cheryl Lawton Malone, Albert Whitman & Company, 2017. (Elementary/middle school)
    • How to Be an Elephant, Katherine Roy, Macmillan, 2017. (Elementary/middle school)
    • Natumi Takes the Lead: The True Story of an Orphan Elephant Who Finds a Family, Gerry Ellis & Amy Novesky, National Geographic Society, 2016. (Elementary/middle school)
    • She Leads: The Elephant Matriarch, June Smalls, Workman Publishing, 2020. (Elementary/middle school)
    • Thirsty, Thirsty Elephants, Sandra Markle, Charlesbridge, 2017. (Elementary/middle school)

    Poetry

    • Elephants Swim, Linda Capus Riley, Houghton Mifflin, 1995 (Preschool).

    FILMS

    • “Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War” (KDC Films, 2018).
    • “Coming of Age with Elephants” (National Geographic, 1994).
    • “Elephant Refugees: A Fight to Survive When Waters Run Dry” (Dream Out Loud Films, 2020).
    • "The Elephant Queen" (Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone, 2019).
    • "Elephants, Out of Captivity" (Free All Captive Elephants, 2024).
    • "Encounters with Elephants" (IdeaCity, 2015).
    • "Gods in Shackles" (Sangita Iyer, 2016).
    • “Gardeners of Eden” (Village Beat, 2014).
    • “Love and Bananas” (Abramorama, 2018).
    • “Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants" (Fern Levitt, 2023).
    • "The True Story of the Elephant Whisperer" (Tekweni, 2019).
    • “When Giants Fall” (Matriarch Films, 2015).
    • Check out Ecoflix for more films dedicated to saving animals and the planet!

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