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Whispers: The Story of A Baby Elephant
Based on the Disney motion picture Whispers.
Whispers the elephant is still a baby when poachers bring down his entire family. His only hope for survival is if he can find another family that will adopt him. Luckily, Whispers meets up with one, but its leader, Half Tusk, won't let him join her herd. Only Groove, Half Tusk's sister will help him. Together, they face each danger, and form a bond that can only be broken by death.
This poignant and heartwarming tale follows Whispers as he discovers his own voice in an often terrifying - but ultimately beautiful - world.
Whispers the elephant is still a baby when poachers bring down his entire family. His only hope for survival is if he can find another family that will adopt him. Luckily, Whispers meets up with one, but its leader, Half Tusk, won't let him join her herd. Only Groove, Half Tusk's sister will help him. Together, they face each danger, and form a bond that can only be broken by death.
This poignant and heartwarming tale follows Whispers as he discovers his own voice in an often terrifying - but ultimately beautiful - world.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1900
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August 9, 2023
This book sounded rather promising and I am not quite sure where I got it but it is a rather horrifying read, especially when you consider that it is a Disney film-based book geared towards children. And it confuses me as to how I didn't come to know this particular movie as I was raised as a Disney child.
Whispers starts off as a heartwarming story in which the little elephant is born but not too much in the book the family is attacked by a group of poachers. Being the only survivor, Whispers attempts to get another family of elephants to help him find his family but they reject him in mockery while when one of the adult females does take pity on him they end up getting ambushed yet again by another group of poachers with fire that kills the new adult female and basically almost kills the calf with dehydration as he tries to get help for the dying cow. And as if the young reader/viewer of this book/film doesn't need any more trauma we get yet another scene in which the poachers make their big debut yet again.
The Jouberts in their own right are supposed to be well-known documentarists and if that was the case then this movie must have been the failure of their career. I cannot make heads or tails whether the calf with "Groove" is actually the real calf with his mother after she was "supposedly"slaughtered thus verifying that the footage shot of the actual animals was manipulated into a partially true, mostly false tale or whether this whole tale was fabricated using real animals as they went about their business while tossing a Disney flair into the mix.
In the end I must say that this poor PTSD calf must be put back on the shelf since I cannot in any right mind say I would recommend this book to a child without any sincere worries that it would induce nightmares in them upon reading it.
Whispers starts off as a heartwarming story in which the little elephant is born but not too much in the book the family is attacked by a group of poachers. Being the only survivor, Whispers attempts to get another family of elephants to help him find his family but they reject him in mockery while when one of the adult females does take pity on him they end up getting ambushed yet again by another group of poachers with fire that kills the new adult female and basically almost kills the calf with dehydration as he tries to get help for the dying cow. And as if the young reader/viewer of this book/film doesn't need any more trauma we get yet another scene in which the poachers make their big debut yet again.
The Jouberts in their own right are supposed to be well-known documentarists and if that was the case then this movie must have been the failure of their career. I cannot make heads or tails whether the calf with "Groove" is actually the real calf with his mother after she was "supposedly"slaughtered thus verifying that the footage shot of the actual animals was manipulated into a partially true, mostly false tale or whether this whole tale was fabricated using real animals as they went about their business while tossing a Disney flair into the mix.
In the end I must say that this poor PTSD calf must be put back on the shelf since I cannot in any right mind say I would recommend this book to a child without any sincere worries that it would induce nightmares in them upon reading it.
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