Wildlife SOS – Bid to be Wild 2020
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Rhama Children's Book by Ulla Ringle

Item Number
388
Estimated Value
30 USD
Sold
30 USD to ad7e211f2
Number of Bids
4  -  Bid History

Item Description

Ulla Ringle’s delightful children’s book is about a baby who elephant falls into a well. He gets rescued and ends up in an elephant orphanage. The book tells his trials and tribulations and how he becomes famous!

The story of Rhama is written in rhymes and is set against the illustrations of Debra Calderon (another WSOS donor!), who resides in Virginia.

Aimed for children 6-12 years old, although adults may enjoy it, too!

Book is signed by the author.

 

About the Author: Ringle lived in Sri Lanka for a while and visited the working elephants and also the elephant orphanage. This experience inspired her to write about these wonderful creatures. Ringle was born in Germany and met her husband, Ernst, in Sri Lanka. She would regularly visit the working elephants at a dam construction site.

 

"We had friends who had big tea plantations, and baby elephants were treated like pets before they became too big and were trained for work," Ringle said. "We heard many, many stories about the intelligence, courage and devotion of elephants and their owners and trainers. So even though the book is fiction, some stories in there did happen."

Item Special Note

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