Saving H’Non: Chang and the Elephant
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
Chang is a young wildlife conservationist in Vietnam, passionate about helping all creatures, especially those who’ve been kept in captivity. When she witnesses H’Non the elephant being beaten by her owner, Chang desperately wants to help her. The sixty-year-old elephant has been in captivity her whole life and treated terribly, leaving her health in a bad state. Can Chang find a way to give H’Non her freedom and enable her to live a better life?
This stunning graphic novel, created by environmental activist Trang Nguyen and manga artist Jeet Zdung, is the tale of Chang and H’Non’s journey and based on a true story.
Featuring incredibly detailed, true-to-life illustrations of Vietnamese wildlife that leap off the page thanks to Zdung’s stunning mix of painterly illustration, notebook sketches and graphic novel entries, there is something different to discover on every page and with every reading. The creators also use a mix of storytelling techniques, from traditional graphic novel panels to wordless pages, immersing readers in Chang’s world.
A book to be poured over and revisited, readers who love H’Non’s story should also look for Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear by Nguyen and Zdang, which won the Carnegie Medal for illustration.
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