From: Leda Schubert <bobr>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:11:11 -0400

Faithful Elephants is one of the most agonizing books I have ever read, but there is a fascinating exploration of the truth behind the story on Kay Vandergrift's website, which I recommend to all: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/books/cyberlibrarya.html The article is: Kawabata, Ariko and Kay E. Vandergrift. "History Into Myth: The Anatomy of a Picture Book"

Leda, who gets the digest and hopes she's not repeating other posts. BALLET OF THE ELEPHANTS, Roaring Brook www.ledaschubert.com



Kay Vandergrift and At 12:00 PM 9/29/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Message: 7
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:12:20 -0700
>From: "Grace A. Balwit" <gbalwit at viclink.com>
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] picture books for teens
>To: "'Strnad, Benita'" <bstrnad at ua.edu>,
> <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu>
>Message-ID: <200609281817390.SM00720 at Grace>
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>The name of the book is Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People,
>and War by Yukio Tsuchiya,Ted Lewin. I used this book to introduce sixth
>graders to an alternate view of war. They were almost always stricken by
>the devastation of war and the overflow of human activity on animals.
>Children who were unmoved by other reports... almost always were touched by
>the plight of zoo animals in war.
>
>Grace

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