World-famous Sangduen ("Lek") Chailert, founder of the Elephant Nature Park where the abused find sanctuary.
"When they first arrive at the park, after suffering the most hideous abuses, they are like the living dead. Their eyes are empty and they are so skinny.
Today I find them happy and healthy, joining new family groups, and starting to play again. That is most joyful to me and makes my heart smile."
Later this year Kennebec will be presenting a six-part series of children’s books based on Lek's childhood, when she was known as "Mubu, the little animal doctor".
The Mubu six-part book series is about the childhood of one of the planet’s great women. She is Sangduen (“Lek”) Chailert, granddaughter of a northern Thailand hill tribe shaman. Today she is famous all over the world for saving elephants and for creating an Elephant Nature Park in which these great animals can live free.
Once an anonymous child of three years living in a little known village without electricity, Lek made forays into the jungle with her beloved grandfather, who gave her a secret name, “Mubu.”“It is the great thing I have to thank my family for,” Lek says, “They gave me a chance to love and care for animals. When I was young my grandfather rescued many wild animals caught in traps. He would heal them, and he would also let me help him and taught me how to take care of those animals. He called me the “Little Animal Doctor.” I was so proud of that title.
“I fell in love with all the animals I treated and made sure they were safe an eventually returned to the jungle.”
Beginning in November 2010, Kennebec Entertainment will begin bringing you books about Mubu’s jungle adventures and her profound love for her animals, and how the animals gave back to their “little animal doctor.”
The first book, Mubu & Mu-Mu, The Little Animal Doctor will tell the story of Mubu and a baby gibbon whose hand was seriously injured in a trap.
Your children will love the little animal doctor and her furry patient!
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