Rockstar Book Tours is hosting a two week long tour for the second installment in the Nandu series.
Title: A
CIRCLE OF ELEPHANTS
Author: Eric Dinerstein
Pub. Date: January 22, 2019
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Formats: Hardcover,
eBook
Pages: 288
Summary: From the author of What Elephants Know, a 2017
ALA Notable Children's Book and winner of the 2017 South Asia Book Award for
Children's and Young Adult Literature, comes this stunning companion novel
about the complex relationship between people and nature coexisting in the
Borderlands of 1970s Nepal.
Thirteen-year-old Nandu lives in the newly established Royal Elephant Breeding Center on the edge of the jungle. Here, the King's elephants are to be raised under the protective watch of the stable. Nandu-along with his adoptive father Subba-sahib, his mentors, friends, and the rest of the elephant drivers-is tested by man and nature as earthquakes, drought, wild herds, and rumors of poachers threaten the Center.
When Nandu's world is thrown into turmoil, so, too, is the world of Hira Prasad, the Center's powerful bull elephant. An unbreakable bond of brotherhood drives Nandu and Hira Prasad together as they struggle to maintain the delicate natural order of life in the Borderlands.
Dinerstein's poetic prose and scientific expertise come together in this breathtaking tale that transports the reader to the center of dangerous conflicts and heartbreaking friendships.
Review: The sequel to What Elephants Know and it holds up really well. It does not have that 2nd book feel. We follow Nandu has he is growing into his role as an elephant driver with his new Tusker (male elephant) and learning more about the beauty and importance of nature and wild life around him. I listened to the audio book of the first novel, What Elephants Know and I felt more connected to the characters while reading this novel. I could imagine their environment, how they dealt with the natural disasters.
Eric Dinerstein is
Director of Biodiversity and Wildlife Solutions at RESOLVE. Previously, he was
Lead Scientist and Vice President for Conservation Science at the World
Wildlife Fund. His areas of specialty include tropical mammals, large mammal
biology, biogeography, bats, rhinos, seed dispersal and community ecology. With
the World Wildlife Fund, he led many of the organization's most important
scientific projects, including the Global 200 Ecoregions, examples of which
form the basis of his book TIGERLAND AND OTHER UNINTENDED DESTINATIONS.
Dinerstein is also the author of THE KINGDOM OF RARITIES, THE RETURN OF THE
UNICORNS: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned
Rhinoceros and WHAT ELEPHANTS KNOW: A Novel, among other articles and
publications.
He attended
Northwestern University and Western Washington University, and did his
post-graduate studies at the University of Washington (Organization of Tropical
Studies) and the National Zoological Park's Conservation and Research Center.
3 winners will win a finished copy of A
CIRCLE OF ELEPHANTS, US Only.
Giveaway Link:
Tour
Schedule:
Week One:
1/14/2019- The Reading
Corner for All- Review
1/15/2019- BookHounds YA- Interview
1/16/2019- Rhythmicbooktrovert- Review
1/17/2019- Confessions
of a YA Reader- Excerpt
1/18/2019- dwantstoread- Review
Week Two:
1/21/2018- Lifestyle of Me- Review
1/22/2018- Loie Dunn- Review
1/23/2018- YA Books Central- Interview
1/24/2018- The Layaway Dragon- Excerpt
1/25/2018- Two Points of Interest- Review
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