Katherine F. Woodward

What we humans can learn from Ernest! Debbie McFee has written an informative and well-researched story. A true education in “elephantness.”

Maybe you’re like me and have gone your whole life thinking that elephants live a charmed and pampered life in zoos and at the circus. Like me, you’d be dead wrong. This is a sweetly told story of the…

What a wonderful tale honoring elephants. Thank you Debbie McFee for your words of wisdom!

This is a powerful story the author wrote to illuminate a captive elephant’s life to people, like me, who never thought about it before. In the form of a fictional story, she takes us into the world…

Before I read this book, I had no idea about the needs of elephants and their sophisticated societies. Ernest really opened my eyes to the cruelty of zoos and circuses. A loveable character and reliab…

If your heart is open to the gentleness of animals and their tragic intersection with humanity, Ernest is the elephant to tell you his story. He met tragedy, pain and sorrow at the hands of human keep…

THE GIFT OF “ERNEST”

Throughout history, story-telling has played a major role in transforming attitudes and consciousness. Story-telling fosters community cohesion, unity, awareness, compassion and …

The message of this book is that the more we learn about the complex needs of elephants, their social hierarchies, their astonishingly intricate familial connections, the more we must reject keeping e…

I may be a bit biased as I know the author. That said this book has been an education for me. It is written from the elephants standpoint and I became invested in the characters… Ernest, Maggie, Edwar…

Through the Eyes of Ernest is a perfectly written tale of what these magnificent creatures go through while in captivity. Ernest tells his story as well as the life stories of his many friends and ill…