I Want an Elephant

ABOUT THE BOOK
FAMILY ACTIVITIES

Text: Liat Yosef / Illustrations: Alona Frankel

The little girl wants a pet. In a playful conversation between her and her parents, she learns about animals that can’t live in houses. In the end she gets to have a little puppy.

Family Activities

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I Want an Elephant – Parent Suggestions
Dear Parents,

The child would like to have a pet at home, so she starts a conversation with her parents offering them different types of animals while learning new characteristics about each one and why it is hard to keep them in the house.
By the end of the story, the child realizes that this whole animal conversation was a trick by the parents to convince her to get a puppy, so she chose to use the same trick against them in case the dog dirties the house.
We share with you few thoughts to talk about with your children…

Family Activities

We can look together at the last page of the book, where it has all the animal pictures: we can recall with our child the name of each animal and why it is hard to bring them home.
Encourage the child to think of an animal that was mentioned in the book and imagine together what we need to change in the house to make it livable for that animal (make a hole in the ceiling so the giraffe can stand straight…)
We can have a conversation about other animals, that are not mentioned in the book, and discuss whether it is hard to keep them in the house and why.
If you have a pet at home, you can have a conversation about it, what the child loves about it and what is needed to take care for it.
We can imagine that the dog in the story dirtied the house, and the parents did not like at all. Suggest to the child, what other animals she can raise in the house.
We are hosting the animals! Maybe we want to make masks of animals faces and give each member of the family one and ask them to imitate the animal’s voice and way of moving. All we need is to draw the animals face and sticks.