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Ultimate list of preschool books growing book by book. Vaseem khan is the bestselling author of the baby ganesh detective agency series, a crime series based in mumbai, india and featuring a baby elephant. A book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. A list of books where elephants are the predominant or focal image on the cover. Baby ganesh agency book 1 first edition by khan, vaseem isbn. In 2008, he made his debut as a childrens author with the boy in the dress. Here are fun free printable elephant coloring pages for children. The biggest elephant ever weighed 24,000 pounds and was feet tall. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of. Vaseem first saw an elephant lumbering down the middle of the road in 1997 when he arrived in mumbai to work as a management consultant. There are about 30,000 to 50,000 asian elephants left in the wildthats compared to about 500,000 african elephants in the wild. The unexpected inheritance of inspector chopra by vaseem khan. Childrens book project is a san francisco based nonprofit that collects and distributes gently used childrens books for youth of all ages.
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