The Elephants Come Home by Kim Tomsic and Hadley Hooper
Non Wels
Written by Kim tomsic
Illustrated by hadley hooper
Published by Chronicle Books (2021)
2023-2024 Nominee - Picture Books for Older Readers
Synopsis
One day in 1999, Lawrence Anthony and Françoise Malby hear that a herd of wild African elephants needs a new home. They welcome the elephants to their wildlife sanctuary—Thula Thula—with open arms. But the elephants are much less sure they want to stay. How will Lawrence prove to them that they are safe and loved?
What follows is a gorgeously illustrated real-life story of a friendship . . . and the story of the miraculous way that love given freely will return—greater and more wonderful than it began.