Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783196734
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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An Elephant in the Garden is Simon Reade’s new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling children’s novel. 1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother – and an elephant from the zoo, flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War. Escaping the Allies’ advance from the West – and also the advancing Russian armies from the East – this extraordinary trio of refugees meet: a downed RAF officer, cowering in a barn; a homeless school choir on the run and their Countess saviour, harbouring them from the Nazis; and the mechanised American cavalry, appearing over the horizon. It is Lizzie’s story – but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Plodding, obdurate, opportunistic, loadbearing, indestructible, cheering – Marlene embodies the stubbornness of the human will and how it will do everything to survive.
Author: Patrick McLeod
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482647525
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Something is eating all the vegetables in Daddy's garden. Isabella thinks it might be an elephant or a bear or even a penguin. Follow along in this who-done-it mystery of vegetable carnage.Inspired by a true story trip to the garden when author, Patrick McLeod, found his garden devastated by an unknown critter. Isabella then hypothesized it was an elephant who did it.Follow along as Isabella and Daddy try to solve this mystery using her imagination and logic. "An Elephant in Our Garden", encourages children to explore all about animals and their habitats.The cover and four interior pages of this book have been infused with Augmented Reality. Bring them to life with your iOS or Android device that contains a front-facing camera. Requires an internet connection.
Author: Jane Ray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910126738
Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Jasmine works hard in the Raja's garden, but someone is eating all the fruit. Who can it be? Little does Jasmine know her curiosity will lead her up into the very skies - to a very different type of garden in the heavens.
Author: Françoise Malby-Anthony
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 1250220157
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Malby-Anthony offers a book of great inspiration and wide appeal to nature-loving readers." —Publishers Weekly A heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Françoise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and everything changed. After Lawrence’s death, Françoise faced the daunting responsibility of running Thula Thula without him. Poachers attacked their rhinos, their security team wouldn’t take orders from a woman and the authorities were threatening to cull their beloved elephant family. On top of that, the herd’s feisty new matriarch Frankie didn’t like her. In this heart-warming and moving book, Françoise describes how she fought to protect the herd and to make her dream of building a wildlife rescue center a reality. She found herself caring for a lost baby elephant who turned up at her house, and offering refuge to traumatized orphaned rhinos, and a hippo called Charlie who was scared of water. As she learned to trust herself, she discovered she’d had Frankie wrong all along. Filled with extraordinary animals and the humans who dedicate their lives to saving them, An Elephant in My Kitchen is a captivating and gripping read.
Author: Ramona Badescu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701261
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Imaginative, playful, and funny, this title is all about exploration and the experience of seeing color anew. Full color.
Author: Thomas French
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1401396038
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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"This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on and on. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail." -Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author "An insightful and detailed look at the complex life of a zoo and its denizens, both animal and human." -Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco. The sweeping narrative takes the reader from the African savannah to the forests of Panama and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison. Zoo Story shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire to both exalt and control nature.
Author: Jane Kerr
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338188488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Based on real events, this is a miraculous story of a boy who befriends a famous elephant during a race against time and villains! When young pickpocket Danny accidentally buys an elephant at an auction, he finds himself swept up on an unforgettable adventure. Offered a job by a zookeeper, all he has to do is ride Maharajah from Edinburgh to Manchester in one week.Everyone in the country is watching, even the Queen, but the journey soon proves to be filled with drama and danger. A rival zookeeper will stop at nothing to make sure they fail, and soon Danny's shady connections from his past threaten to overturn the mission...Can Danny win the trust and friendship of the elephant and guide him home? Can the two of them stick together through the odds and win the day?
Author: Tommy Tomlinson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501111620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
Author: Rodney Peppé
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1623346150
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Henry has always wanted to be a gardener! His friend the worm has to show him what to do... No Henry...you don't have to sit in the flower bed.
Author: Ramona Badescu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701117
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Children will delight in the adorable Pomelo and in this whimsical tale about the joys and terrors of growing up.
