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An elephant in the garden

Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels t...

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Main Author: Morpurgo, Michael.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends, 2013.
Edition: 1st Square Fish ed.
Subjects:
Elephants > Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Juvenile fiction.
Dresden (Germany) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels they must take Marlene with them, adding even more danger to their journey.
Physical Description: 199 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9781250034144 (pbk.)
9780329998745 (Follett bdg.)
1250034140
0329998749
Author Notes: British author Michael Morpurgo was born in St. Albans, Hertforshire in 1943. He attended the University of London and studied English and French. He became a primary school teacher in Kent for about ten years. He and his wife Clare started a charity called Farms for City Children. They currently own three farms where over 2000 children a year stay for a week and experience the countryside by taking part in purposeful farmwork.

He has published over 100 books and several screenplays. He won the 1995 Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, the 1996 Nestle Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion, and the 2000 Children's Book Award for Kensuke's Kingdom. Private Peaceful won the 2005 Red House Children's Book Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Five of his books have been made into movies and two have been adapted for television. He was named as the third Children's Laureate in May 2003.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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