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Modoc is a book written by American writer Ralph Helfer and published in 1998. It tells the true story of a boy and an elephant, and their fight to stay together across three continents. It tells the true story of a boy and an elephant, and their fight to stay together across three continents.
Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo starts with a boy, Will Robert, riding an elephant along a beach, whilst on holiday in Indonesia. Will is grieving for his father, Robert, who died in the Iraq War. The elephant, Oona, is in an odd mood that day: her handler mentions that she refused to go into the sea for her usual morning dip.
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.
The Magician's Elephant is the thirteenth book written by American author Kate DiCamillo. It was released on September 8, 2009, and illustrated by Yoko Tanaka. It was released on September 8, 2009, and illustrated by Yoko Tanaka.
Babar the Elephant (UK: / ˈ b æ b ɑːr /, US: / b ə ˈ b ɑːr /; French pronunciation:) is an elephant character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff. [1] The book is based on a tale that Brunhoff's wife, Cécile, had invented for their children. [2]
The White Bone is a Canadian novel written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins in 1999. [1] It was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 1998. [2] Sometimes compared to Richard Adams's Watership Down, [3] it is an adult fantasy story about animals—in this case, African elephants—in a realistic natural setting but given the ability to speak to one another throughout the book.
Along with Ivan, Stella, an elephant, and Bob, a stray dog, live at the mall. Stella is an older elephant who has a chronic injury in one leg and regularly performs in the daily shows. Unlike Ivan, Stella has a long memory and can remember living in other places, like the circus where she was taught many of her tricks.
Illustration by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) "Toomai of the Elephants" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling about a young elephant-handler. It was first published in the December 1893 issue of St. Nicholas magazine and reprinted in the collection of Kipling short stories, The Jungle Book (1894). [1]