How to Be an Elephant

Description: The Sibert Award Honor-winning author of "Neighborhood Sharks" presents a nonfiction picture book that 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. Full color.

Brief description:

Katherine Roy is the award-winning author and illustrator of many science-based books for kids, including her Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands, How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild, and Making More: How Life Begins. She is also the illustrator of numerous other books, including Barb Rosenstock's Otis and Will Discover the Deep, Richard Ho's Red Rover, and Kirsten W Larson's The Fire of Stars. She lives with her husband and sons in western Oregon.
You can visit her online at katherineroy.com.

Review Quotes:

"The energetic illustrations are whimsical on one page, scientifically precise on the next . . . Roy reels you in with startling facts, then shows how a dominant species is really vulnerable, dependent on humans to choose to practice conservation." --New York Times Book Review

"Exceptional and arresting... Roy holds readers' attention with her approachable writing style and astonishing statistics."--Booklist, starred review

"A must-have."--School Library Journal, starred review

"Masterful." --Horn Book, starred review

"Immersive illustrations and careful attention to detail in both the text and art combine to create a rewarding study of a remarkable animal." --Publishers Weekly, starred review