Ask-Me-Anything: Part 1: The Elephant and The Peanut

  

So, along with feedback about 'The Elephant and The Peanut', and photos sent to me by WhatsApp, I started receiving some questions as well. Most of them have been from kids, who've read the stories or had it read to them.

Reading bedtime stories to children, even to those who can read for themselves, is an essential activity for parents. It allows the kids to focus on the story, rather than the words, and their unique ability to free-associate and speak without filters reveals so much about how they learn and what they think.

So I've been sent a handful of questions and I'll try and answer these in this post. Hopefully, this is as fun to read as it was to do...

Q1. Why is baby elephant looking for Mommy and not Daddy?

Q2. Why is the elephant referred to as a tusker?

Q3. Is the baby elephant a boy or a girl?

Q4. What does 'unabated' mean?

Q5. When and why do you use semi-colons in the book?