An Elephant in the Garden

By Michael Morpurgo

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783191740
• ISBN13: 9781783191741
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9