Elephant Fiction

Hannibal must transport 60 war elephants from Carthage in North Africa across the Middle Sea to Iberia. He has to train his people to accomplish this difficult task. The first part of this project is to load one elephant on a ship and sail to the East on the 18-day voyage. He has chosen his largest elephant, Obolus, to use in the training of his men.

L'Enfant d'Eléphant est extrait d'Histoires comme ça, un recueil de nouvelles qui expliquent le pourquoi...

Ella's counting the days until the first day of school, but not because she's eager to start! On the contrary, as the littlest elephant on Elephant Island, she's terribly nervous about the other kids she'll meet. Then she receives a beautiful red hat that belonged to her grandmother - her new lucky charm.

The fifth episode continues in the third week of the story with a visit to the pig farm and some disturbing revelations. Members of congress visit Valkyrie with an unexpected twist and an innocent visit to a cabin by a cave stirs up supernational possibilities with disturbing consequences.

After the discovery of serial killers in episode one, an ambitious journalist threatens to expose another Farmerville secret. Conspiracies and nightmares loom as Deputy Ron and his daughter struggle with their experiences and emotions. Is there a supernatural element at work or is it just paranoia, and what does a pig farm have to do with anything?

I told you in the beginning, you would not like our town, and now you know one of the reasons why. What did Ron mean when he warned that everything would change? As our story continues, the previous night’s traumatic outcomes had a disturbing impact on Deputy Ron and his daughter Laura, and stirred up a previous devastating family event. Will the supposed witch doctor of Farmerville make foreshadowing predictions? Will another Farmerville secret, Valkyrie, be in danger of being exposed by a young ambitious journalist?

Jeder ist begabt, talentiert und besonders auf seine eigene erstaunliche Art und Weise. Das Bilderbuch für Kinder. Entdecke deine wahren Stärken und lerne, dich nicht mit anderen zu vergleichen - das perfekte Bilderbuch, um seinen Kindern beizubringen, dass jeder etwas Besonderes ist und dass es prima ist, anders zu sein! Es ist ein besonderer Tag in der Schule, doch anstatt aufgeregt zu sein, fühlt sich der kleine Tiger Samuel eher traurig und ängstlich. Alle anderen in seiner Klasse haben eine besondere Fähigkeit.

In einer der letzten Geschichten des großen Kinderbuchautoren David McKee macht sich Elmar, der lustige und bunte Elefant, auf die Suche nach einem Geschenk. Elmar erfährt von seinen Freunden, dass seine Tante Thea ihn sucht. Also begibt er sich mit Rosa auf einen Spaziergang durch den Dschungel. Bei seiner Tante angekommen, kann diese sich nicht daran erinnern, was sie ihm geben wollte. Können Elmar, Rosa und Tante Thea zusammen das Geheimnis lüften? Diese neue und sechs weitere Elmar-Geschichten bilden gemeinsam mit der beliebten Elmar-Musik ein lustiges HörErlebnis für die ganz Kleinen.

Es ist fast ein Jahr her, dass Silas Mutter in ihre Heimat Türkei gereist ist, in der Hoffnung, dort die Einwanderungspapiere zu erhalten, die ihr die Rückkehr zu ihrer Familie in den Vereinigten Staaten ermöglichen würden. Die lange Trennung ist für Sila kaum zu ertragen. Das ändert sich jedoch, als Sila ihren Vater, der als Mechaniker tätig ist, außerhalb ihrer Stadt in Oregon begleitet, um einen Lastwagen zu reparieren. Dort lernt sie Gio kennen, der nur wenige Monate zuvor in der staatlichen Lotterie gewonnen hat.

Willy the baby elephant decides he’s grown up enough to go swimming in the river. It starts out fun, but he soon realizes he has become stuck in the mud. Willy is in big trouble! He calls for Mumma Elephant to help him out.

Mnogo-mnogo let tomu nazad, moja ljubimaja, u slona ne bylo hobota - tol'ko chernovatyj tolstyj nos, velichinoj s sapog; pravda, slon mog povorachivat' ego iz storony v storonu, no ne podnimal im nikakih veshhej. V jeto zhe vremja zhil na svete ochen' molodoj slon, slon-ditja. On byl strashno ljubopyten, a potomu vechno vsem zadaval razlichnye voprosy. Zhil on v Afrike, i nikto v jetoj obshirnoj strane ne mog nasytit' ego ljubopytstva.

When Deputy Ron Farmer pulls over a car for a routine traffic stop, he never expected to find that two escape convicts had taken a family of four hostage, and that his 17-year-old daughter would inadvertently be drawn into the precarious situation.

The choice of bringing a book out of the dustbin of history and making it more easily available to the general public should be an easy decision, right? Not in the case of The Wonderful Electric Elephant written by Frances Montgomery. Listeners can hear exactly what Frances Montgomery wrote and decide for themselves what they think of it. Parts of this novel are a vile stain on history and society. But, I must also add that she wrote some innovative ideas and had some imaginative concepts which were ahead of her time.

Can you imagine that a big white elephant could disappeared into thin air? It may sound impossible or ridiculous but it actually happened. An elephant got sent to Great Britain as a gift to the Queen but it was lost on the way and nobody seems to have a clue how it came to happen. Can chief inspector Blunt solve the case? Find out in Mark Twain’s short story "The Stolen White Elephant". B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories.

This is a story for children of all ages, and is suitable for grandparents or parents to listen to with their children. It is the story of a wondrous electric elephant and the people who encounter it. Big as a house, this wondrous electric elephant is able to move and do amazing things, depending on who is piloting it and whether or not some cats have sneaked into the inside of the electric elephant.

Ellie wakes up excited for a day at the zoo where she gets to see her very favorite animals, elephants, and not just ordinary elephants, emerald ones. Not only that, she meets emus, eagles, and elk. This story is a fun listen for children as it takes the use of alliteration as a literary device to help listeners in sounding the letter E.

The Cold War Story follows Air Force Captain Jacob Walden, who was shot down over Vietnam in 1970 and never returned home. Forty years later, journalist Ted Pratt embarks on a mission to uncover Jacob's mysterious disappearance. Through his investigation, Ted meets Charlie Smith, a secretive and experienced operative who may have knowledge of the disappearance. As Ted pieces together the clues to uncover the truth, the mystery deepens and the stakes become higher. Will Ted be able to unravel the truth behind Jacob's disappearance?

"Imagine-toi qu'au temps jadis, l'Éléphant n'avait pas de trompe. Il n'avait qu'un nez noiraud, courtaud, et gros comme une botte. Il pouvait bien le tortiller de droite et de gauche, mais non pas ramasser des choses avec." "L'Enfant d'éléphant" (1902) est un conte racontant pourquoi la trompe de l'éléphant est si grande. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) était un auteur britannique. Né en Inde, il est surtout connu pour son roman "Le Livre de la Jungle". Il fut à la fois le premier anglais et le plus jeune lauréat (42 ans) à recevoir le Prix Nobel de littérature.

Un elefante solitario pero amable quiere se amigo de los otros animales del bosque. Pero, uno por uno, lo rechazan. Un día, un león entra al bosque y todos los animales corren por sus vidas. El elefante podría proteger a los animales más pequeños, pero ¿por que se molestaría con eso cuando ellos lo trataron tan mal?

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.