Elephants have long been a source of inspiration for nursery themes and toddler room decor, whether the motif takes completely over or baby's room features one or two elephant pieces within ...

A similar capacity for reimagining animates THE BOY AND THE ELEPHANT (Random House Studio, 38 pp., $19.99, ages 4 to 8), a wordless picture book by the Australian illustrator Freya Blackwood.

It's a new beginning in this beautiful boho chic meets safari themed nursery.

THOMAS: Back in Nairobi, it's bedtime at the nursery. The keepers sleep in with the orphans, spending each night with a different elephant, to prevent the orphans from becoming too attached.

Fossil footprints reveal that the extinct straight-tusked elephant raised its young with groups of adult females and no adult males, just as modern elephants do – and that they were probably ...