The White Elephant

How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse? Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy''s punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom of a tail, and wash behind its ears, and, above all, keep it from doing any work. Oh, if only Run-Run could make the magnificent white elephant disappear! Clever as a magician, he does--but the curse has tricks of its own for Run-Run.

Product details

• Authors: Sid Fleischman, Sid/ McGuire Fleischman
• Assisted by: Robert McGuire (Illustration)
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2006
• EAN: 9780061131370
• ISBN: 978-0-06-113137-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION: Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Friendship, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Dogs, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Violence, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Bullying, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Pets, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Runaways, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Elephants, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Nocturnal, JUVENILE FICTION: Social Themes / Strangers