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The boy and the elephant

A boy cherishes an overgrown piece of land where he befriends an imagined elephant formed by the trees, but when builders arrive to clear the space, he must devise a plan to save his cherished friend.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Blackwood, Freya (Author, Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House Studio, 2024.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Conservation of natural resources > Juvenile fiction. Imagination > Juvenile fiction. Trees > Juvenile fiction. Stories without words > Juvenile fiction. Wordless picture books. Picture books.
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Summary:	A boy cherishes an overgrown piece of land where he befriends an imagined elephant formed by the trees, but when builders arrive to clear the space, he must devise a plan to save his cherished friend.
Item Description:	"Originally published in a slightly different form by HarperCollins Australia, Sydney, in 2021."--Page opposite title page.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:	Ages 4-8.
ISBN:	9780593707661 0593707664 9780593707678 0593707672
Author Notes:	Freya Blackwood was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1975 and grew up in Orange in New South Wales, Australia. She earned a Bachelor of Design degree (Visual Communications) at the University of Technology, Sydney and then worked for several years in the film industry in Sydney and Wellington, New Zealand. She is a full-time illustrator. Her illustrations for Two Summers won the Crichton Award in 2004. She won The Territory Read Awards 2016 for Children's literature/YA fiction with author Irena Kobald. Her 2017 book, The Great Rabbit Chase, was named an Honour Book in the 2018 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, for Picture Book. (Bowker Author Biography)