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INSPIRATION FOR THE BOOK TITLES …

A couple of things inspired the name of the book series around the time the first one, Remembering Elephants was published in 2015. Firstly, it was a quote from Sir David Attenborough (who allowed us to use it in the book), which was:

“The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?”

Then secondly, I saw an interview with [primatologist and conservationist] Jane Goodall talking about the rate of elephant poaching at that time. She said that unless something changes, there’s a good chance there might be

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