The Magician's Elephant
About this book
What if? Why not? Could it be? When a fortune teller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchenne knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortune teller's mysterious answer (an elephant! An elephant will lead you there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it’s true. With atmospheric illustrations by fine artist Yoko Tanaka, here is a dreamlike and captivating tale that could only be told by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. In this timeless fable, she evokes the largest of themes – hope and belonging, desire and compassion – with the lightness of a magician’s touch.
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure fiction
- adventure stories
- aventura y aventureros
- aventures
- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters, fiction
- children's fiction
- elefantes
- elephants
- éléphants
- elephants, fiction
- enfants absents
- enfants disparus
- espérance
- fantasía
- fantasy
- fantasy fiction
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- frères et soeurs
- frères et sœurs
- hermanos y hermanas
- huérfanos
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- magie
- mensonge
- merveilleux
- missing children
- missing persons
- missing persons, fiction
- new york times bestseller
- niños desaparecidos
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- nyt:paperback_books=2011-11-19
- orphans
- orphans, fiction
- orphelins
- romans
- romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- siblings
- siblings, fiction
- spanish language materials