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An Elephant in the Garden

An Elephant in the Garden - Paperback

by Michael Morpurgo
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael Morpurgo, Simon Reade (Adapted by)Series:Oberon Modern PlaysAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2015-07-07Pages:60
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oberon BooksISBN-13:9781783191741ISBN-10:1783191740UPC:9781783191741Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, AnimalsBook Topic:Europe, ElephantsSize:8.10 x 5.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCDSGVQC9H

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oberon BooksISBN-13:9781783191741ISBN-10:1783191740UPC:9781783191741Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, AnimalsBook Topic:Europe, ElephantsSize:8.10 x 5.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCDSGVQC9H

Michael Morpurgo OBE, is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist, best known for his work in children's literature. He was the third Children's Laureate. He has written over 120 books, and has been published in over 25 languages. His children's novel War Horse has been adapted for stage where it became a smash-hit success in the UK, before transferring to Broadway and Toronto. War Horse has also been adapted for screen, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2012.

Simon Reade has previously adapted Michael Morpurgo's Toro! Toro! and The Mozart Question as well as the phenomenally successful stage version of Private Peaceful, which he has also dramatised for BBC Radio and for feature film. His other plays include Moon Tiger, Twist of Gold, Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp, Not the End of the World, The Scarecrow and His Servant, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark (all for Bristol Old Vic), Pride and Prejudice (for Theatre Royal Bath Productions), and for the Royal Shakespeare Company Ted Hughes' Tales From Ovid, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Epitaph for the Official Secrets Act (with Paul Greengrass.) His plays for young people are published by Oberon, as is his book Dear Mr. Shakespeare.
Publisher: Oberon Books

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Michael Morpurgo, Simon Reade (Adapted by)

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Michael Morpurgo

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