Elephant Eating Leaves

In this calm scene an elephant stretches its long trunk up into a tall tree to pull down a leafy branch, holding the greenery in the curl of its trunk with a content expression. The page captures something elephants do all day in the wild: they eat for many hours and can put away hundreds of pounds of plants, using their trunk like a flexible arm to reach high branches. There is a pleasing balance here between the big grey body and the leafy branch overhead, giving colorers both wide spaces and smaller leaves to fill. It suits children who like a peaceful, realistic subject, while the wide open body shape stays friendly for younger hands to fill without straying. The reaching trunk also makes a great talking point about how clever and useful an elephant's trunk really is. Print it on US Letter or A4 and bring the tree to life with layered greens above a soft grey elephant.