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The Elephant Scientist (Multi-Touch Edition): Scientists In The Field (2013)

by Caitlin O'Connell(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

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Middle Grade & Children's

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HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson is an informative book on elephants and their habitat. The book provides most of its elephant facts from Nambia, Africa. The photos throughout the whole book are real life elephants from this country. The pictures are so lifelike that it is almost like you are there with the elephants. This book would be perfect for anyone that is fascinated with the elephant or wants to learn more about it. The book even includes a glossary of all of the terms listed in the book, so that if a reader does not understand a word, it can easily be looked up. There are also notes in the back that list sources that can be helpful to further research an elephant. There is not a theme of the book because it is solely information a... morend facts.I think that this book would be very beneficial to a classroom because it is important for students to see that not every book has to tell a story. This book would be extremely helpful for a student to do a book report on. I think that If I were a teacher, I could read this informative book to my class and have them make their own elephants and add facts that they learned on them. After observing at Fort Worth Museum School this past semester, I think this type of book would be a great teaching tool to use because of the types of activities and lessons that are implemented there.
review 2: The author’s purpose in The Elephant Scientist, by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson, is to explain to the reader how and why elephants can sense vibrations through their feet and trunk. After the reader finished this book, she/he will realize that elephants are very smart animals, and they have a very orderly way of living their life. This book features Caitlin O’Connell and her crew as they study the elephants in Namibia. This book is an informational non-fiction piece, and throughout the book, there are many pictures with informational captions. There are several chapters to this book, and each new chapter brings new vocabulary and information that can been understood from previous knowledge. This very interesting book has information on a new discovery of elephants, but also it contain information of daily activity, an elephant “social ladder”, and many more surprising detail about one of the world’s biggest animals, that prove how complex they really are. I enjoyed this book and one reason why is because of the fact that I liked that the information was presented in such a way that I never got bored. One way they did this was that they had a page with pictures of elephants and the captions gave the information while the reader had a visual to see it. Another reason that this book appealed to me was that I thought is sent such an inspirational message to anyone and everyone who will ever read this book. Caitlin O’Connell started out studying tiny little bugs, planthoppers, which could communicate through vibrations. When she realized that the elephants were acting like the planthoppers, it helped her made her amazing discovery. This goes to show that one can accomplish anything he/she wants to do, and just remember prior knowledge to help in life, “It was during Caitlin’s visits to Etosha that she first noticed the elephants “freezing” like planthoppers when listening for the arrival of other herds. When she saw the huge mammals stopping in their tracks and leaning forward on their front feet, she began to wonder if vibrations in the ground could hold important messages for elephants.”(29) The one critique for this book would be for it to be a little longer, and have something like, “A year later” chapter. I think the ending that was written works really well because after learning about how smart and advanced elephants are, it tells about how they are endangered, and where you can go online to adopt one. Since the reader has read all about elephants, they have a better chance of wanting to adopt and help them. I would only recommend this book to a friend if they wanted non-fiction, I didn’t get bored, but this book wasn’t good enough to make it my favorite genre. It had good facts, pictures, and captions, and is a great book if the friend was really into non-fiction. less

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