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Elephant in the Garden

Elephant in the Garden

Reade, Simon
Morpurgo, Michael

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 1783191740
ISBN13: 9781783191741
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 7 2015
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

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.

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