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Elephant's nose
Judith Baker, Lorato Trok
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Credits & Licence
Originally published by African Storybook Initiative.
Author - Judith Baker, Lorato Trok Translation - African Storybook Illustration - Wiehan de Jager Language - English Level - First paragraphs © African Storybook Initiative 2015 Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 Source www.africanstorybook.org Original source
author: Judith Baker, Lorato Trok. illustrator: Wiehan de Jager. translation: African Storybook.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; story unchanged. Suitabook’s guidance is a separate analysis.
Original Book on African Storybook: Elephant's nose (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at the river scene to check how the sudden snap feels, then look together at the final pictures and talk about which details show the nose has changed.
- Themes
- Curiosity and questions: The baby elephant asks other animals about their features and asks Crocodile what crocodiles eat. Her curiosity drives the story, but the river encounter complicates the idea that following a question is always safe.
- An imagined origin for trunks: The story says that a baby elephant's nose stretches during a struggle with Crocodile, giving elephants their long trunks. The ending presents this as a playful explanation within the tale, not as a factual account of animal biology.
- Worth knowing
- Crocodile suddenly snaps at and holds the elephant's nose; it stretches as she pulls, and she falls over. The episode may feel startling or uncomfortable.