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Summary: Best thing I've read in a l-o-n-g time!
Review: Grab your reading glasses and a big box of Kleenex. I finished this slim book in a few hours and simultaneously wiped out a box of tissues, too. (I am a 200 pound 52-year-old grandpa, and not used to snuffling and blowing because of a book!)
Once you start reading the story of baby elephant Amy and the bond all female elephants have with each other, and her subsequent separation from the herd due to merciless "culling" of the adults, your heart will break with the fate of the poor orphaned calf.
Only through the warm heart of the "Marlboro Man" cowboy does Amy become adopted and brought onto his Colorado ranch to grow up and learn how to be an elephant. Cowboy Bob gives her a little goat as her playmate, and little by little draws her out of her fear of everything and turns her into a mischievous, intelligent and loving creature.
Of course, nature takes its predestined course and Amy grows to quite a bit of tonnage and can't remain the cowboy's pet forever. The cowboy's decision to part with his "large love" is heart-wrenching on himself, the elephant, and the reader.
The book is written in a flowing style rich with elephant facts and wild west allusions to fence mending and cattle driving. There's not a reader alive who wouldn't succumb to this touching story.
Highly recommended....buy it, read it, and pass it around.
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Summary: Best thing I've read in a l-o-n-g time!
Review: Grab your reading glasses and a big box of Kleenex. I finished this slim book in a few hours and simultaneously wiped out a box of tissues, too. (I am a 200 pound 52-year-old grandpa, and not used to snuffling and blowing because of a book!)
Once you start reading the story of baby elephant Amy and the bond all female elephants have with each other, and her subsequent separation from the herd due to merciless "culling" of the adults, your heart will break with the fate of the poor orphaned calf.
Only through the warm heart of the "Marlboro Man" cowboy does Amy become adopted and brought onto his Colorado ranch to grow up and learn how to be an elephant. Cowboy Bob gives her a little goat as her playmate, and little by little draws her out of her fear of everything and turns her into a mischievous, intelligent and loving creature.
Of course, nature takes its predestined course and Amy grows to quite a bit of tonnage and can't remain the cowboy's pet forever. The cowboy's decision to part with his "large love" is heart-wrenching on himself, the elephant, and the reader.
The book is written in a flowing style rich with elephant facts and wild west allusions to fence mending and cattle driving. There's not a reader alive who wouldn't succumb to this touching story.
Highly recommended....buy it, read it, and pass it around.
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful
Review: I am so glad I bought this book, having run across it checking for any update book on Modoc by Ralph Helfer. What a big heart Bob Norris had for animals - one many of us can relate to. How wonderful that he could take Amy and love her and care for her and yet let her go, how heartbreaking. Some day at the Rainbow Bridge, where spirits are reunited with beloved pets, I'm sure Bob and Amy will be reunited for eternity. Thank you, Malcolm MacPherson, for this very moving and beautiful story. Please write a sequel telling and showing how Amy is today, if she is living in Africa and how Bob and Jane Norris are doing. It would be a great gift for any reader of this amazing true story.
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful
Review: I am so glad I bought this book, having run across it checking for any update book on Modoc by Ralph Helfer. What a big heart Bob Norris had for animals - one many of us can relate to. How wonderful that he could take Amy and love her and care for her and yet let her go, how heartbreaking. Some day at the Rainbow Bridge, where spirits are reunited with beloved pets, I'm sure Bob and Amy will be reunited for eternity. Thank you, Malcolm MacPherson, for this very moving and beautiful story. Please write a sequel telling and showing how Amy is today, if she is living in Africa and how Bob and Jane Norris are doing. It would be a great gift for any reader of this amazing true story.
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Summary: Amy's story, continues ...
Review: I wondered if you knew what happened to Amy yet? She lives in Arkansas at an elephant sactuary!
http://www.elephantsanctuary.org/default2.asp
You can read her biography here. Also, this place, Riddle's Elephant and Wildlife Santuary, was featured on Animal Plant's Growing Up Elephant!
Just in case you didn't know, I thought you might enjoy seeing that Amy is happy!
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Summary: Mesmerizing and inspiring
Review: Only rarely does a story like this come along, staying with you long after you read the final page. The love that develops between rancher Bob Norris and Amy, the orphaned elephant, is both haunting and beautiful. Even the most cynical will find their jaws dropping at the emotional bond between an animal-loving cowboy and a wild animal. When Bob adopts Amy, who has been yanked from her African home at a pitifully young age, neither can imagine the closeness they will soon feel toward one another; Amy becomes a member of the family, plain and simple, bringing a joy to Bob's life that is overwhelming. But the most compelling aspect, perhaps, of this book is its honesty: life with Amy is joyous but not always easy. She is, after all, essentially a wild animal, even if she does ride the range with Bob and adopt other farm animals as her own. Bob comes to realize that Amy has needs even his great love cannot provide for her. Bob finds the courage, and loves Amy enough, to give her the life she needs, the life she deserves. But it is not the end of their story, and it is only the beginning of Amy's incredible journey. Bob Norris and his family were given a rare chance to experience something most people will never have: a true melding of man and nature. Their story is a great gift, one that readers will keep always in their heart.
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Summary: The Cowboy and His Elephant
Review: The Cowboy and His Elephant is a very touching and funny book. It tells a true story about the Marbolo Man. He adopts a baby elephant that was captured from the plains of Africa. The baby elephants colony was killed by poachers one night. A man that runs a nature reserve in africa takes the baby elephant in and help keep her alive for a while then she is shipped of to the U.S. The man who owns the five need to borrow some stalls to hold the elephants in. Well the man who he borrows the stalls off of is the Marbolo Man. The five elephants are all very little. The runt named Amy is alwaysed being picked on by the other four elephants. The Marbolo man takes Amy under his wing and takes care of her as best as he can. He decides to buy Amy. All of his horse hands loved Amy, the animals also liked amy. The billygoat liked Amy alot. Amy was getting very big. So the Marbolo man had to make a very hard decision but I will leave that to you to find out. If I could rate this book higher than a Five I would give it a 100.
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Summary: Awesome book
Review: The Cowboy and his elephant is an exellent book for any reader. No matter what kind of book you like to read this book will satisfy your interest. This book is about a cowboy (the Marlboro Man) that owns a ranch. A transporter from africa comes and asks to store some animals. Bob (the cowboy) instantly falls in love with a special elephant. They have an interesting relationship that can only be described in the words of author Malcom MacPhearson. Sadly the fun must end the elephant ,that bob names Amy, gets too big for Bob's ranch. She finds happiness at another place though, when she starts to work in a circus. If you are looking for a book to read this is definately the one.
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Summary: enlightening on the history of elephants and bob norris
Review: this book goes into detail not only of the history of amy's (the elephant) life story, but you also learn social patterns and needs of elephants. as the story introduces bob norris, you also learn a lot about his past leading to his acquaintance with an elephant. the book is simply written. this certainly isn't an eloquent classic, but it is packed with educational content. an easy read, and informative to boot. would definitely make a great pass-time during a flight.
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Summary: A Delightful and Wonderful Story
Review: This book is so well written! This was the first time I've hated to have a book come to an end. I wanted the story to go on and on.
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