Tusk Tusk

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Summary: Avoid Intolerance & Embrace Diversity
Review: For ages 4-8.
Black elephants, white elephants, they don't like each other elephants. The peace-loving elephants of both packs hide in the jungle to avoid the growing tension. The black and white elephants battle one another until the death. None survive and the world and nature carry on without them...until one day, out of the jungle appear gray elephants. They lived together peacefully, but after a while, some rumblings were heard about little and small ear differences. The reader is left to predict the possibilities.

From David McKee's story, children can learn indirectly about the circular history of arrogance and racism. Children are confronted with the reality of persecution and how intolerance has repeated itself throughout history with no good ending. Children may be led to appreciate that they are responsible for acting with tolerance toward different peoples and should be led to embrace diversity.

Rating:
Summary: Avoid Intolerance & Embrace Diversity
Review: For ages 4-8.
Black elephants, white elephants, they don't like each other elephants. The peace-loving elephants of both packs hide in the jungle to avoid the growing tension. The black and white elephants battle one another until the death. None survive and the world and nature carry on without them...until one day, out of the jungle appear gray elephants. They lived together peacefully, but after a while, some rumblings were heard about little and small ear differences. The reader is left to predict the possibilities.

From David McKee's story, children can learn indirectly about the circular history of arrogance and racism. Children are confronted with the reality of persecution and how intolerance has repeated itself throughout history with no good ending. Children may be led to appreciate that they are responsible for acting with tolerance toward different peoples and should be led to embrace diversity.

Rating:
Summary: Suprise ending-does conflict ever go away?
Review: This book has a suprise ending. It is excellent in using with children to show them that if we look hard enough we can always find something to start a conflict about. The point being-most of what we find is petty