Elephant Fiction

A boy and his elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village immediately after the Vietnam war.

In Welcome to Zanzibar Road, Mama Jumbo the elephant walks down Zanzibar Road on a hot day in Africa. She decides this is the perfect place for her new home. There are plenty of new friends to meet, and all her neighbors pitch in to help her build her house. But who will she share it with? Maybe Little Chico will come live with her!

Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that’s okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. And when she discovers that someone is threatening the life of a baby elephant at her parents’ clinic, Oriol is determined to take action.

The search is a journey that lasts a lifetime. There are places that feel like that for which we search, but the urge is never totally quieted. And though we can't say with any certainty, we suspect that if we found it, we'd never leave again.

When a priceless artifact known as The White Elephant mysteriously vanishes, Albert Campion is called upon to unravel the peculiar case. What seems like a straightforward theft soon reveals layers of deception, hidden motives, and unexpected dangers. As Campion navigates the twists and turns of high society and the criminal underworld, he must determine who stands to gain from the disappearance—and whether the legendary artifact holds secrets beyond its material worth.

Four orphans have escaped from the Home for Friendless Children. One is Lucy, who used to talk and sing. No one knows why she doesn't speak anymore; silence is her protection. The orphans find work and new friends at a traveling circus. Lucy loves caring for the elephants, but she must be able to speak to them, and to warn others of danger. If Lucy doesn't find her voice, she'll be left behind when the circus goes on the rails. Meanwhile, people are searching for Lucy, and her puzzling past is about to catch up with her.

Seis cuentos para niños de dos a cinqo años. ¡Historias geniales para leer antes de dormir! Las historias incluyen un chita, un ogro, un elefante, un sapo estupendo, y otros dos animales.

Fantasy and science fiction come in many forms from long and complex to short and simple, but all are the flights of fancy of a human mind. In these stories, elephants fly spacecrafts and turtles live in deep space. The reader can visit an unhappy god, a new wizard discovering his powers, and a dragon that saves a boy. Questions are asked as to whether a devil can change his ways as well as can there be an angel with no name. The author presents possibilities for the reader to consider in these personal imaginings. A book for those who are young and young at heart.

Sir Thomas Devere and Eleanor Hadrian have loved each other most of their lives - but sometimes love doesn't conquer all. Their chance at happiness was ruined by Tom's hasty marriage to someone else. Heartbroken, Nell left home, finding a new life as a teacher at a school for the blind. But when one of her supernaturally gifted students, Charlie, is kidnapped, Tom reappears, and her worlds collide. Tom claims he hasn't seen his wife since the day of their marriage...yet he fears the missing student could be his son.

رواية الفيل الأزرق تحكي قصة طبيب نفسي يدعى يحيى، كان قد مر بظروف نفسية صعبة، بعد تعرضه لحادث توفت على إثره زوجته وابنته، ترك الطبيب العمل لمدة خمس سنوات على إثر تلك الصدمة، وبعد ذلك بدأ يعود إلى حياته الطبيعية، ليتلقى صدمة أخرى حين علم أن صديقه وزميله في الطب النفسي شريف يعاني من انفصام بالشخصية، وأنه قام بقتل زوجته، يبدأ يحيى بمساعدة صديقه شريف بالتعاون مع لبنى أخت شريف وقد سبق أن تقدم يحيى للزواج منها، لكن أخاها شريف رفض طلب صديقه يحيى.لكن الأحداث تتصعد لتصل الى درجة لن تعرف الحقيقة من الوهم فيها.

Walking with Elephants, a lighthearted slice-of-life story, brings to the table the serious work/family issues facing women today. It explores the modern dichotomy of a workplace that is filled with homemakers who still must cook, clean, carpool on nights and weekends, shop for prom dresses, and create the holidays -- such as Suze. But it also is filled with women who have the same drive as men, have no family responsibilities, and will do what ever it takes to get ahead.

A fire kills Jessie Parsons’ family and leaves her an orphan at age 13 during the Great Depression. The fire also leaves her both physically and emotionally scarred. Amid her struggles to adjust to life on a farm orphanage, she tries to help an elephant calf that has escaped from the circus. Jessie and the elephant bond as Jessie tries to care for the elephant. The calf is eventually returned to the circus, but Jessie discovers her love for animals and, in particular, elephants. When she is 16 years old, Jessie joins the Conroy & Pepperidge Circus as an animal handler, but quickly becomes...

Learn all about opposites at the zoo with the elephant duo Eddie and Ellie. These curious elephants explore the world around them together, but somehow always end up liking opposite things!

As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma, and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of 62 Anglo-Burmese children, born to local women after affairs with foreign men. Half castes, they are not acknowledged by either side, and they are to be abandoned with no one to protect them.

When Grief first arrives, it is an elephant—so big that there is hardly room for anything else. But over time, Grief becomes smaller and smaller—first a deer, a fox, then a mouse, and finally a flickering firefly in the darkness leading us down a path of loving remembrance.

The amazing sparrows with the help of a woodpecker are able to defeat the giant elephant.

Volume 10 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero building a new airship and taking it to Africa, where he hunts elephants with his new electric rifle and rescues two missionaries from a savage and crafty tribe of red pygmies. Please remember that this book was published in 1911, and attitudes and language acceptable at that time are not politically correct today.

A modern classic, Elmer the Colourful Patchwork Elephant has been a nursery favourite since his creation in 1989 and has sold over four million copies around the world. Elmer is not your normal grey elephant - his colourful exuberance cannot be contained for long!

Rory Sparkes is a boy with a head full of dreams. He might become a strongman and travel the world with the circus. Or he might try to make it as a cowboy - that would be a fan-tas-tic second best. Although at the moment he'd settle for missing his maths lesson and making his torch work properly. As he plots to help his best friend, Guy, earn enough money to buy the latest top-of-the-line model boat (so they can set sail for South America), the circus rolls into town and everything spirals out of control.

Neelie Sterling never did listen well to the conversation around her. Always preoccupied with an inner monologue, she sometimes missed things. She was happy when Matt, her veterinarian husband, told her he was getting a collie; she liked dogs. But he had said colleague, to help with his busy practice. The problems start when the pretty blond "collie" calls Neelie to say that she is pregnant with Matt's child.