Ten Favorite Books About Elephants

(alphabetically by author, with a soundtrack by Cliff Edwards)

 

  • In the Presence of Elephants by Peter S. Beagle and Pat Derby, photos by Genaro Molina *

  • The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

  • The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

  • The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy

  • The Saggy Baggy Elephant by Byron and Kathryn Jackson, illustrated by Gustav Tenggren

  • The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James

  • The Elephant Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami

  • A Collection of Essays by George Orwell *

  • Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina *

  • The Elephant’s Journey by José Saramago

* nonfiction

— September 9, 2022


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