{"id":1099,"date":"2021-06-21T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2021-06-20T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T21:20:48","slug":"the-elephants-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/the-elephants-come-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elephants Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/elephantscomehome-595x514.jpg?resize=525%2C454&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"454\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14664\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Elephants Come Home: A True Story of Seven Elephants, Two People, and One Extraordinary Friendship<\/em><br \/>\nby Kim Tomsic (Author) and Hadley Hooper (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3iRSasp\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781452127835\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781452127835?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> One day in 1999, Lawrence Anthony and Fran\u00e7oise Malby hear that a herd of wild African elephants needs a new home. They welcome the elephants to their wildlife sanctuary&#8211;Thula Thula&#8211;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? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/elephantscomehome1-595x255.jpg?resize=525%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14665\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/elephantscomehome2-595x255.jpg?resize=525%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14666\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elephants Come Home: A True Story of Seven Elephants, Two People, and One Extraordinary Friendship by Kim Tomsic (Author) and Hadley Hooper (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: One day in 1999, Lawrence Anthony and Fran\u00e7oise Malby hear that a herd of wild African elephants needs a new home. They welcome the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/the-elephants-come-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Elephants Come Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-hJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":390,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/baby-elephants\/","url_meta":{"origin":1099,"position":0},"title":"Baby Elephants","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"May 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Baby Elephants by Kate Riggs (Author) Booktalk: A baby elephant narrates the story of its life, describing how physical features, diet, habitat, and familial relationships play a role in its growth and development. 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