Book recommendation: Ella the Elegant Elephant

Buy it: Ella the Elegant Elephant

Ella the Elegant Elephant (By Carmela & Steven D’Amico) – Ella is going to be starting at a new school in a new town and she’s worried. But she’s excited when her grandma sends her a “good luck hat,” which is big and orange with flowers on it. Ella wears the hat on the first day and stands out from her classmates, who make fun of the hat and nickname her Ella the Elegant Elephant. But Ella’s mother insists that things will get better in time. One day the school bully is falling off the school wall, when Ella decides to help. As they fall off the wall together, Ella’s hat turns into a big parachute that brings them down for a safe landing. The next day at school, everyone is wearing a big hat like Ella’s to express their love and appreciation for her. Things had gotten better like her mother said.

The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, and I have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!