The Elephants' Guide to Hide-and-Seek

by Kjersten Hayes, Gladys Jose (Illustrator)

Overview

Elephants are great at many things…playing hide-and-seek is not one of them.

The Elephant Hobby and Sport League is here to help all those frustrated, always "found" elephants out there with The Elephants' Guide to Hide-and-Seek. This handy guide offers sympathy, support, and superior hiding solutions to elephants who long to overcome their size disadvantage when playing hide-and-seek.

A hilarious tongue-in-cheek book perfect for elephants and their best human pals. Readers of Have You Seen Elephant? will love this silly elephant game of hide and seek, and all its handy tips and tricks for hiding!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492678465
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	04/07/2020
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD400L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kjersten Hayes is a debut author based in Bellingham, Washington. She has spent many years creating and selling independent collage work, greeting cards and handmade art journals. Visit her at www.kjersten.com.

Gladys Jose is a freelance illustrator and designer, living in Orlando, Florida. She studied art at the University of Central Florida and graduated with a BFA specializing in graphic design. She works from her studio at home for numerous clients. Visit her online at gladysjose.com

Editorial Reviews

"Adorable…Young readers will enjoy." — Booklist

"Cheery, energetic…Lively fun." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-01-12
Elephants can do lots of stuff; they never forget, for instance. But play hide-and-seek? Not so much.

Face it: Whenever elephants play this game with child friends, guess who inevitably gets found first? These giants' girth and height, not to mention trunks, account for their consistent failure to hide successfully. Now the Elephant Hobby and Sport League comes to the rescue with The Elephants' Guide to Hide-and-Seek, which features crafty ploys to help level playing fields. Wise pachyderms would do well to bring their vaunted memories to bear on its pages. Sample tips: hiding in a large bathtub with shower curtains and standing behind a humongous pile of unsorted laundry (the kind found in a typical kid's bedroom). Some don'ts? Cramming into too-small spaces, like doghouses, or pretending to be a lump in a bed. If nothing works, the guide also advises that elephants just be "it"—or simply accept the fun of being found. After all, "you love those kids!" This cute but slight tale mines humor from its snarky narration, voiced in the cheesy tone of a TV commercial. Cheery, energetic, expressive cartoons depict kids with varied skin tones and hairstyles playing in the park with their blue, bespectacled elephant pal as the latter demonstrates various tips outlined in the guide.

Lively fun. Readers may pick up some pointers for their own games of hide-and-seek. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews