Elephant Fiction

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.

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

Told from the perspective of precocious 14-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter’s father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Finø, where people of all faiths coexist peacefully. Yet nothing is at it seems. When Peter’s parents suddenly go missing, Peter and his siblings fear the worst - has their parents’ relentless quest to boost church attendance finally put them in danger?

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!

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.

Regina Giraffe and Eddie Elephant have to improvise in order to make their raft seaworthy.

Kojo is a young elephant. When he sees his shadow for the first time, he’s alarmed.

Baby Edward stories are designed to help your children get to sleep at bedtime. Children are drawn in to the rhythmic and melodic nature of the adventure, and as the journey unfolds, so do the tricks to lull the listener to sleep. In this story, the fifth of the series, the young elephants go looking for a secret.

Mayo begins his new collection with a brief tale and utterance made by an elephant trainer at a zoo: “It’s said,” Beasley says, “an elephant won’t pass by a dead elephant without casting a branch or some dust on the body. A kind of homage, I suppose.” In a variety of ways, the twelve stories that follow are tributes to characters who find themselves on the fringes, at the sides of roads. In “When the Moon Was Ours for the Taking,” a man recalls a brief few days he found himself fishing with his NASA-physicist father who is otherwise preoccupied with the Space Race craze of ...

Crybaby A Gripping Thriller of Survival and Vengeance What happens when a ten-tonne Indian elephant goes rogue in the heart of rural India? Once revered as a sacred temple elephant, Crybaby was stolen, brutalized, and left for dead. But he didn’t die. Now, he’s become something else. Something terrifying. Something unstoppable. Villages lie flattened in his wake. Roads are shattered. Crops trampled. Witnesses speak in hushed voices of an enormous shadow slipping back into the jungle—untouchable, untraceable. To the locals, he is no longer just an elephant. He is a living ghost. A ...

In ZIGGY – CHEEKY DOGGY TALES (BOOK1), ZIGGY writes about his life with Jack aged 7 and Emma, aged 5 together with their friends, Teddy the teddy Bear, Dorothy the doll and Hammy the hamster. There are two big humans in the house as well (Jack and Emma’s mummy and daddy) but much more importantly for Ziggy, there’s a big smelly tomcat called GINGER. ZIGGY and GINGER don’t get on. There’s a lot of fun and laughter as well as naughtiness and fighting – although that’s mainly between ZIGGY and GINGER. Then everything changes. A very big and frightening stranger arrives in the ...

Bloom's on Canyon Road, specializing in contemporary Native American art, once was a powerhouse gallery in Santa Fe. Then it lost its best-known artist, Willard Yellowhorse. Worse yet was Yellowhorse's premature death soon after arriving in New York City under very suspicious circumstances. With Yellowhorse's final painting STRUGGLE, about to be sold at auction, gallery owner Charles Bloom's inner voice keeps asking two unrelenting questions: how did Willard Yellowhorse really die, and who if anyone killed him? The answers for Charles lay somewhere deep inside the Navajo nation, Yellowhorse's ancestral home.

The sixth book in the Charles Bloom Murder Mystery series… In 1961, two Navajo boys must bet each other’s lives - and risk their most prized possessions - to escape the wrath of the sadistic headmaster of a Gallup Indian boarding school. The white devil and his spawn will stop at nothing - not even murder - to acquire the objects of their desire. Fifty years later, a brush with death draws Rachael Yellowhorse and Charles Bloom back to the Navajo reservation, where they unwittingly stumble on a decades-old secret of child abuse and stolen heirlooms.

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.

1922. Twenty-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her – to serve the upper classes or find a man to marry (preferably kind). She ‘proved useful’ working in a munitions factory during the war – handling explosives – but now, society is returning to normal and women are being put back in their place.

Adventures of an Elephant Boy is another brilliant political satire filled with heart and humor by the author of The Mouse That Roared. Living in a quiet village on the Ganges River with the freedom to do as he pleases, a simple elephant boy named Hari Ranjit Singh is selected by the Best of All Possible Nations (any resemblance to the U.S.A. being wholly intentional) to be its personal guest. On his way there, Hari learns that in order to have liberty and happiness in the rest of the world, you need lots of laws…lots and lots of laws. “Some writers have a talent for narrative. Some ...

Jack Monroe had very few paths before him. In 3263 you could either choose to work the mines, extracting raw materials for shipment to Luna, or take a menial job maintaining the atmosphere of Earth. Not satisfied with either, Jack chose to enlist in the AHF to protect those he loves and find his purpose in life. Should he successfully complete the first year of training, he will have become something he never would have dreamed of–a leader and a killer.

Rachel thinks she will feel like Queen Esther when she rides an elephant draped in fancy fabric through the streets of Rangoon. Then she notices the old elephant's bruised and cracked feet, and she doesn’t feel so royal. So when Rachel wins the gold Purim crown at the synagogue celebration, she has an idea about how she can help the elephant.

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.

Ellie is the nicest animal in the jungle, but she is very sad. Her friends Lyle the lion, Fatima the flamingo, Rex the rhino, and Micky the monkey want to find out why! Each story is easy to comprehend and exciting. Join in on a great listening experience with friends and family, whether you're traveling, in a waiting room, or closing in on bedtime.