"Desert Elephants is a valuable and urgent book. It is a seminal contribution that will help save this unique elephant population" Dr.Mike Chase, founder and director of Elephants Without Borders

"Desert Elephants presents this potentially complicated ecological case study in the most simple and delightful terms. It's a pleasure to experience this book- we will certainly use it in our work". Vance Martin, president of the WILD Foundation.

"Helen Cowcher captures the great beauty, harmony, and wisdom embodied in the extraordinary coexistence of elephant and people." Joyce Poole, Ph.D., Director of ElephantVoices

The Tuareg nomads of Mali have a saying "We live with the elephants and the elephants live with us".

For hundreds of years, the elephants have followed a 300 mile circular path in Mali, West Africa. The locals are determined to continue their peaceful coexistence with the elephants and they communicate with each other over the radio and under the 'palaver' tree to help each other and the elephants too. This is the picture book story of DESERT ELEPHANTS.

DESERT ELEPHANTS Written and illustrated by Helen Cowcher. Published by Farrar Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
ISBN 978-0-374-31774-4 Hardcover Picture Book. Ages 5 & up
/ Grades K and up. 40 pages $16.99. OUT August 30th 2011

Helen Cowcher, artist, author & illustrator has created several award winning books for children including RAINFOREST, ANTARCTICA & TIGRESS.

DESERT ELEPHANTS, her latest book, follows that picture book trail with its bold colorful paintings and dramatically presented subject matter. The theme of all her work is the natural world. She lives in London, England.