Elephant Fiction

When an elephant escapes from the London Zoological Gardens, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in one of their strangest cases yet. Engaged by a jeweler in fear for his life, the trail leads Sherlock to two secret societies, each pursuing the eight ruby elephants said to unlock a vault containing the lost Nizam diamond. Standing in his way are some deadly foes: the Archangels, assassins in top hats and tailcoats, hell-bent on the murder of the great detective and the acquisition of the treasures of the realm.

Roxi is a rescue dog with a nice life. She wants all the animals in the world to have a nice life too. In this story, Roxi heads down Elephant-Trunk-Road, where she finds happy and sad elephants. With her superhero powers and her message about kindness, Roxi helps the sad elephants and her story has a happy ending.

Nia Gaines is the newest member of Zak Bates' Eco-Adventure task force - only, she doesn’t know it yet. When Nia’s parents drag her along on a business trip to China, the source of their affluence soon becomes clear: ivory, prized since ancient times for its beauty and never before so rare. In Beijing’s back alley curio shops, the prices are great...but what’s the cost? The answer will change Nia’s world.

Calamity strikes when the precious gift of a white elephant from the King of Siam to the Queen of England is stolen in America. But it is the hilarious antics of the detectives trying to track down the beast which occupies us. As the rampaging elephant heads east, or maybe west, or possibly north or south, it leaves a trail of death and destruction.

A mother elephant describes all the activities that she and her baby do together. Pair this charming fiction story with its nonfiction companion book, Big Grassland Animals.

A kind but lonely elephant seeks friendship among the other animals of the forest, yet one by one, they reject him. One day, a lion enters the forest, and all the other animals flee in terror. The elephant alone can protect the smaller animals, but why bother when they were all so cruel to him?

Bakala la girafe qui voulait jouer au footQui n'a jamais rêvé d'avoir plein de copains et tout partager avec eux ?Bakala vit dans la savane avec sa famille, c’est une girafe gentille et serviable. Elle ne rêve que d’une seule chose : pouvoir rejoindre un groupe de copains et jouer au football avec eux. Malheureusement pour elle, les autres animaux ne sont pas de cet avis.

One day an enormous elephant came to visit the little elephant kindergarten. Reggie, the baby elephant, had a great scare, and Bobby the elephant laughed at him and called him a Scare-apahnt. What was Bobby hiding behind his mockery? How did the other little elephants at the kindergarten react to frightened Reggie and to Bobby mocking him? This is a story about empathy, written in rhyme and filled with abundant wordplay.

Mammut is a very loved little mastodon. But one day, something scary happens. The whole herd works very hard to bring him back home.

Based on real events perpetrated by real people, Who Murdered Mary? is a gripping tale of shortsighted decisions, heartless animal cruelty, and needless murder of an innocent circus elephant that was aided and abetted by mob rule and officials of a prosperous railroad. The tale unfolded during three tumultuous days in September 1916 in the peaceful but ill-fated towns of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Erwin, Tennessee.

Tom Edison and George Westinghouse battled for years over which type of electricity would be the worldwide standard. The Current War incited Tom to electrocute a six-ton elephant named Topsy. It's 1904. Edison is on trial for Topsy's premeditated murder a year earlier. In an unusual legal maneuver, Westinghouse assumed the state's prerogative by retaining the prosecutor, Bourke Cockran, a wealthy Manhattan attorney, federal Congressman, and a mainstay in the Democratic Party.

Disfruta de este recopilatorio que incluye 6 cuentos en formato audio y en el que han participado 9 grandes actores y actrices para dar voz a todos los personajes de este divertido clásico infantil. Elmer es el elefante favorito de los más pequeños. Con sus divertidas historias, aprenderemos que todos nosotros somos tan especiales como él.

In this imaginative fantasy story, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, a mysterious herd of phantom elephants rampages across Amboseli National Park. How can they be stopped? It falls to Professor Nicholas Falconer, an arrogant academic who specializes in psychical studies, to solve the case.

Little Elephant spends the summer on uncle Oliver's and aunt Amy's family farm. Little Elephant has never been to the country, but he finds lots of fun in raising his own garden, feeding the farm animals, and just relaxing down at the stream.

In this hilarious spoof of the detective story, a team of detectives try unsuccessfully to capture an stolen white elephant. This dramatized version features a full cast of characters.

A colleague of Dr. Watson asks Sherlock Holmes for help: His patient Joseph Merrick, known in public as the "elephant man", because of his strong physical deformations, was the victim of a brutal assault. Holmes and Watson take over the case, which takes them to the circus milieu.

The Bird and the Elephant is a poetic philosophical journey that starts with a chance encounter between and a bird and (that's right, you guessed it!) an elephant. Join their journey as they step through the jungle talking their way through 10 philosophical subjects.

Rudyard Kipling's famous Just So Stories provides imaginative answers to the many questions children ask about the world and the animals we share it with. In this magical audio recording, iconic actress and wildlife conservationist Virginia McKenna OBE brings the best beloved of Kipling's stories to a brand new audience.

Did the Elephant Choose His Nose: And Other Poems is a fabulous collection of 20 witty and entertaining children's poems by Joshua McManus. Concentrating on the slightly rude and sometimes disgusting, young children will love the cautionary tales and fun to be had in each of them.

Margaret Mahy is one of the very best childrens writers. Her inventive stories and humour are both incredible and delightful. In 'The Downhill Crocodile Whizz' a crocodile is sent a pair of skates by his Grandma and ignoring her warning sets off to have fun. In 'Elephant Milk Hippopotamus Cheese' a giant helps Weedy finally grow into her enormous feet. Absolute joy.