2121st BLOG POST
26th Book of 2024
To ease off my
reading marathon, I thought of getting nostalgic and read the books I would
have read if I was 5-years old. This made me pick up few children books written
by Stephen Alter. I started with the book “A Little Lost Elephant” which is a
40-pages book telling the story of a baby elephant who has got separated from
his mother. He is marching throughout the jungle to find his mother back. In
this path of search, he has to go through multiple challenges and survive against
them.
Stephen has very
intelligently included this aspect in his book which shall inculcate the
behavior of fighting against all odds whenever you feel lost at life to meet
your final goal you are anticipating to reach. Similarly, he makes the reader
empathize with the protagonist which helps one to feel the pain of others as
well. The illustrations in the book helps the readers to imagine the aesthetics
in which the story has been based upon.
The author also
tries the readers to get introduced with many animals such as leopard, jackals,
woodpecker, civet, kittens, python, cobra, crocodile, mynah, peacock,
grasshoppers, sloth bear, gaur, bull, chital deer etc. The story also tries to
help us understand how elephant reacts upon meeting each of these animals.
Similarly, the protagonist remembers what his mother used to do when she met
with the dangerous animals and copies that to save himself. This teaches the
skill of observation.
The book is
hardcover hence it won’t get spoiled when the young readers would read it. They
might get overwhelmed with the mention of many animals thrown back-to-back in
the story which I believe author could have avoided. He must have mentioned
only few animals but introduced all their characteristics with the readers.
Overall, the book is interesting and you can gift it to young readers. I give
it 3.5 stars out of 5.
Thanks!
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