SuitabookTusk
Lucy Daniels
- Reading
- Read together if your child would value space to pause over the poaching danger or the villagers' crop concerns. You could let them lead on which part of the wildlife-and-community dilemma interests them most.
- Themes
- Elephant relocation and local concerns: A reserve is selected to rehome thirty elephants; nearby villagers are hostile to the plan because they fear for their crops, and a fence is proposed. The plot places support for relocating elephants alongside villagers' concerns about their crops, without establishing which position the story favours.
- Worth knowing
- Ivory poachers threaten an elephant, while Jake's suspicions about the volunteers add suspense.