SJSU Campus Reading Program

• Reading guide provided by the Campus Reading Program

• Water for Elephants events + poster

• Poster for art exhibit on Water for Elephants created by senior seminar illustration students

• Reading guide, questions and author interview from the author

• Borders book discussion with Sara Gruen (video)

• Author Sara Gruen:

  • Author's website

  • Interview with Borders

  • Interview with About.com Bestsellers

  • Interview from Small Spiral Notebook

• Book reviews:

  • New York Times (6/4/06)

  • NPR (audio) (7/5/06)

  • Bookreporter.com

• 2007 Alex Awards

• Circus information:

  • CircusWeb

  • Circus Historical Society

Information on Steinbeck's Cannery Row

New for 08/09, the SJSU Campus Reading Program partnered with the Steinbeck Center in the King Library to highlight a book by John Steinbeck that somehow tied to the fall reading book. Cannery Row was selected. Like Water for Elephants, this book also takes place during the Great Depression. The SJSU Steinbeck Center and Campus Reading Program held events in spring 2009 tied to this book.

• Book information from Google Book Search - including the book introduction by SJSU's Professor Susan Shillinglaw

• NPR - Ed Ricketts and the 'Dream' of Cannery Row (audio)

• Historic Cannery Row (with photos)

• Cannery Row Foundation