My three year old picked this book out while I was browsing through titles. It was a cute story, easy to follow narrative, and he listened intently through the whole book!

This is a cute book and the illustrations are beautiful. Kids, always so full of big ideas themselves, have great fun thinking about all the difficulties in finding and bringing home an elephant, and they find the thoughts of trying to feed and water such a big creature hilarious! At the same time, it makes children think deeply about home and family, both their own and that of the elephant.

I love elephants, so I was instantly interested, though it wasn’t quite what I expected. At first I was not interested in the message, but it flipped and then I felt better about it. It definitely has more of an education and morally sound perspective than an entertaining and captivating story.