Encore For Eleanor -By Bill Peet

This is the story of an aging circus elephant that must retire and go live at a zoo where she's bored with the mundane zoo life. But eventually she meets a young lady who comes to the zoo to draw the animals. Eleanor is amazed at this new activity and let's her curiosity get the best of her. She tries drawing and finds that she loves it! The zoo director in charge is not about to be fooled. He doesn't believe an elephant can draw or paint. Elephants are simply dumb animals. Well Eleanor isn't having that! She reaches out with her trunk and draws a lion she knows from her former life in the circus! This drawing gets the director's attention so they change her exhibit at the zoo into an art show where thousands of school children come every day and watch her draw picture after picture! And so by the end of the story Eleanor has gone from being in constant danger walking on stilts at the zoo, to a happy fulfilling life around children painting and drawing new things every day!

To see real elephants painting pictures like Eleanor does in this book visit these links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foahTqz7On4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uypIj_BYzAw