An Elephant in the Garden

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Michael Morpurgo, Morpurgo Michael, Simon Reade
• Assisted by: Simon Reade (Editor)
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2014
• EAN: 9781783191741
• ISBN: 978-1-78319-174-1
• No. of pages: 60
• Dimensions: 244 mm x 294 mm x 142 mm
• Series: Oberon Modern Plays
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, War & combat fiction, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Plays, Playscripts