Marian Hailey Moss has created two poignant elephant stories that compliment each other & that are children's stories that are inspiration trigger points for all young people. If you want to look at these stories from a broader perspective these stories are trigger points for young people & adults to get involved in saving the elephants in our planet from the senseless savagery of poaching for their ivory.

The driving forces in both "An Elephant Called Butterfly" which is strongly recommended to read first & then "An Elephant Called Mira" are battle cries to end the horrific forms of violence against elephants for the sole purpose of selling their blood stained ivory.

These atrocities must be banned from our planet the killing of the elephants for their ivory & the sale of ivory everywhere must be banned. This message reverberates from the roof tops in Marian Hailey Mosses story.

In the Marian Hailey Moss story "An Elephant Called Mira" the name Mira is an abbreviation for miracle the elephant Mira the mother's spirit who was killed for her ivory leaving her precious baby elephant Butterfly orphaned is alive literally being the elephant in the room of Emma the human little girl protagonist who now has a mission with her friend from Africa Thabo to save the elephants from this evil plague man has created for the elephants.

Mira is the mother elephant who was murdered for her ivory tusks but she's alive as ever in "An Elephant Called Mira". Emma is aghast & doesn't know what's hit her as she interrogates Mira who's rummaging through Emma's drawer's looking for the tusk they savagely stole from her.
This is clearly a poignant moment in the story. The elephant's memory is a source of their inner knowing of man's alienation from them. Marian Hailey Moss is clearly the elephant whisperer in both books setting the stage for the emotional articulation the suffering elephants would say to us if they could. It's particularly dazzling when the piece of ivory pendant of an elephant that Emma possesses becomes alive.

Their actions are the language of a species that's becoming extinct because of the abominations of man. Emma & Mira make a dynamic pair as the mirror also plays a part in this saga as Mira through the mirror sees what she's been deprived of, her life with her precious baby elephant Butterfly who she sees is adjusting well & playing with someone Baku who's adopted her.

Marian tells us that elephants remember their living tragedies & can not forget the agonies of living a world that puts bullets in them but can not kill their living souls. Mira is thrilled to see her baby Butterfly & longs for her.

The elephant sanctuary is where her child lives & has a chance at life. This was not to be for her & so many mother elephants who're wretchedly murdered for their ivory. Marian Hailey Moss is a champion elephant whisperer championing the elephant's plight & a champion for all animals threatened by man's evil greed.

Marin Hailey Mosses narrative is one that echoes to the world that the sale of ivory must end now & that the elephant's habitat is sacred as their lives are also. This is a must read for all young people. Beautiful & poignant.