Elephants Can't Jump!

  • Interest Level: Preschool - Grade 3
  • Reading Level: Grade 2

When the other baby animals laugh at Elephant for not being able to jump, he sets out to prove them wrong. Hard as he tries, he just can’t jump. But then he realizes that he can do something else that no other animal can do . . .

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978-1-4677-6316-5
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Interest Level Preschool - Grade 3
Reading Level Grade 2
Genre Picture Books
Category SEL: A Self-Awareness, SEL: B Self-Management, SEL: D Relationship Skills, Social Emotional Learning
Copyright 2015
Publisher Andersen Press USA
Imprint Andersen Press USA
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2015-03-01
Text Type Fiction
BISACS JUV002080, JUV039140, JUV039050
Dewey [E]
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 9 x 10
Lexile 500
ATOS Reading Level 2.3
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 171305
Accelerated Reader® Points 0.5
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Awards, Original artwork, and Reviewed

Awards

  • Children's Book Award Shortlist, Short-listed, 2015

Reviews

School Library Journal

“Reynolds’s digital, cartoon animals exude a playfulness and innocence that perfectly complement Willis’s winsome story.”—School Library Journal

Kirkus Reviews

“Elephant may fail spectacularly, but this is a success story through and through.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author: Jeanne Willis

Jeanne Willis was born in St. Albans and trained as an advertising copywriter at Watford College. She is now a full-time writer. She lives in North London with her husband and two children.

Illustrator: Adrian Reynolds

Adrian Reynolds was born in South Wales. After studying at Swansea College of Art and Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Adrian worked at Heffers Children's Book Shop before beginning to write and illustrate his own picture books.