Roth slowly reaches out her hand and touches the rhino’s nose. The stocky animal is covered in reddish hair and her snout sports two stubby horns. Suddenly she spots a young female rhino through the tangle of ferns and trees. It’s a rare Sumatran rhino, the world’s smallest rhino and one of the most endangered mammals on the planet. She’s looking for a rhinoceros that’s been seen in the area. Terri Roth trudges through the thick, dark Sumatran jungle. All proceeds from the sale of the book will go directly to the International Rhino Foundation for the care, feeding, and protection of Andatu and rhinos like him.Įmi and the Rhino Scientist by Mary Kay Carson 107 Beast Relief committee and the International Rhino Foundation. The year-long project was a collaboration between the P.S. Kimball Learning Center, an elementary school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, wrote and illustrated this inspiring story with a foreword by Dr. Kimball Learning CenterĪndatu, the only Sumatran rhino to be born in captivity in Indonesia, tells the story of his life at the Way Kambas rhino sanctuary, his species’ fight for survival and what children can do to help save rhinos. One Special Rhino: The Story of Andatu by The Fifth Graders of P.S.
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