Rhode Island Children's Book Award     Student Comments
The Elephant Hospital
by
Kathy Darling
Grades 3-6

The Elephant Hospital is a non-fiction book.  This hospital is in Thailand.  The characters in this book are elephants and people.  The book gives you all kinds of emotions.  I liked this book a lot because  I love elephants!  I would recommend this book to people who would like to be a vet or love elephants.  In the book people are really anxious to
help the elephants.

Lindsay, Grade 5, Northern Lincoln Elementary School, Lincoln, RI

I think the Elephant Hospital is a great book.  The book is non-fiction.  The setting is in Thailand.  The characters are the
elephants, the keepers and the vets.  The pictures are important because they help you know what is happening in the book.  I liked this because elephants were getting saved, and I don't like animals to get hurt.  I think other people should read this because it is a good book and you will learn about elephants at the same time.

Crystal, Grade 5, Northern Lincoln Elementary School, Lincoln, RI

Did you ever wonder how to take care of a elephant?  You cant give them regular pills or shots.  If you read this book you will find out more about elephants and the only elephant hospital in the whole world.

Victoria, 4th grade, Charlestown Elementary School.

Elephant Hospital is one of the best nonfiction books ever.  The setting is Thailand, Asia, and it has great pictures.  When I read this book, many emotions started to boil inside me because these people are doing something that I would love to do.  I would recommend this book to anyone who loves animals or would like to become a vet.

Helen, Grade 5, Northern Lincoln Elementary School, Lincoln, RI

The Elephant Hospital is a wonderful book about baby elephants being saved by the workers at this hospital.  It is set in Thailand.  It is a non-fiction book, and it has great photographs.  I think that this was a wonderful book and I strongly recommend that you read it.

Jessica, Grade 5, Northern Lincoln Elementary School, Lincoln, RI
 
 

This page was created on March 25, 2003 and updated on February 1, 2004.