Elefante - Hardcover

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Elefante is VanitaBooks’ first board book for young children.  It’s said that elephants never forget.  Poor Elefante forgets everything, like tying his shoes and picking up his toys.  But he also forgets his shyness and when a playmate is mean.  Children learn how forgetting some things can be a good thing.  Elefante “forgot to be afraid of Mouse and he made a new friend.” 

This is also our “greenest” book.  It is made entirely from recycled paper and using soy based inks.  Even the art is made of recycled materials.  It includes a page about how to use recycled material to make your own art at home.

Net profits from Elefante will be donated to the Oak Clinic for Multiple Sclerosis.

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Vanita Oelschlager is a wife, mother, grandmother, philanthropist, former teacher, current caregiver, author and poet.  A graduate from The University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, she now serves as a Trustee of her alma mater and as Writer in Residence for the Literacy Program at The University of Akron.  Vanita and her husband Jim were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in 2006.  She was the Congressional Angels National Volunteer of the Year in 2007 and was named National Volunteer of the Year by the MS Society in 2008.  Vanita was also honored in 2009 as the Woman Philanthropist of the Year by the Summit County Chapter of the United Way.