The White Elephant by Sid Fleischman
How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse?
Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy's punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom of a tail, and wash behind its ears, and, above all, keep it from doing any work.
Oh, if only Run-Run could make the magnificent white elephant disappear! Clever as a magician, he does--but the curse has tricks of its own for Run-Run.
Sid Fleischman wrote more than sixty books for children, adults, and magicians. Among his many awards was the Newbery Medal for his novel The Whipping Boy. The author described his wasted youth as a magician and newspaperman in his autobiography The Abracadabra Kid. His other titles include The Entertainer and the Dybbuk, a novel, and three biographies, Sir Charlie: Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World; The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West; and Escape! The Story of The Great Houdini.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780061131370 |
| ISBN 10 | 0061131377 |
| Title | The White Elephant |
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Greenwillow Books |
| Year published | 2006-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2008, Short-listed for Rhode Island Children's Book Awards 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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