In southern Africa a baby elephant watched her family being brutally slaughtered. Terrified and in deep shock, Amy - as she was later to be known - was transported to America to be sold and there she met the man who changed her life forever. Bob Norris is the original "Marlboro Man", but he is a cowboy first and foremost, running a ranch in Colorado. Having recently lost both his brothers, he felt an enormous empathy with this damaged creature and adopted her. He knew that he must help her recover from her horrific ordeal, ...
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In southern Africa a baby elephant watched her family being brutally slaughtered. Terrified and in deep shock, Amy - as she was later to be known - was transported to America to be sold and there she met the man who changed her life forever. Bob Norris is the original "Marlboro Man", but he is a cowboy first and foremost, running a ranch in Colorado. Having recently lost both his brothers, he felt an enormous empathy with this damaged creature and adopted her. He knew that he must help her recover from her horrific ordeal, so he talked to her, listened to her, watched and guided her and was soon rewarded for his patience. Amy became indispensable to Bob and the cowboys who worked for him but more than this, she became a friend and member of the family. This is their story.
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Very Good+ in Fine jacket. Book New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Fine. First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue boards with gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear, binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean (small black dot-remainder mark-on bottom text block page edges); no other marks. Illustrated with color photographs. 240 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
Elephants may be quickly replacing dolphins as my favorite mammal (besides dogs of course). How do I rate this? The writing was very simple (in fact, I would recommend this to my 11 year old niece) so I can't really give it 5 stars but the story was so heartwarming. There aren't many books out there that can make me both laugh and cry. I learned I couldn't read this before work because I would have to redo my eye makeup. I fell so in love with Amy and Bob's affection for her was remarkable. One of the main reasons I enjoyed Water for Elephants was the character Rosie. So if you were a big fan of Rosie you will love this book.
I would put this book right up there with Marley and Me (although Marley's story was more about his place in the family and Amy's is more about her and Bob). You get a real feel for and love the animal in the story.
kshimata
Sep 7, 2007
A Remarkable Book
The book begins with detailed information about how a baby elephant is born and grows up in a close matriarchal family. Amy, the cowboy's future elephant friend, is the only one saved from a massacre. The book is her story. Amy ends up in the U.S., about to be sold to a circus or a roadside zoo. She is adopted instead by the Marlboro Man, an actual cowboy who was featured for years in cigarette ads. What makes this book so good is that it is all true and told with grace and feeling. No one who reads this book will feel the same way about elephants again.
