Elephant Fiction

Panchtantra are the stories that were told to young princes in ancient times in India to make them wiser. Literally meaning five sections, the wisdom they impart today is as relevant as it was years ago. The stories are short and have animal characters which appeal to children.

This story is about a new kind of beast. It is about land-dwelling shark-elephants and how they destroyed the entire world.

From slowing wildfires to planting seeds, one animal is the true superhero that keeps the African savanna in balance. Elephants dig to find salt that other animals lick, their deep footprints collect water for small creatures to drink, and they eat young trees to keep the forest from overtaking the grasslands. In every season, the elephants are there to protect the savanna and its residents - but what would happen if the elephants were only "once upon a time"?

A new baby elephant was born into the elephant community and was named Benny. Benny is the only child of his parents, and everyone rejoiced at the birth of the new elephant to the group. Benny is an elephant that is colored in blue baby body and baby eyes, just like his mother. Benny is so beautiful.

Is it time for you to just give up? Because every time you aim low, you’ll feel like you’ve died and gone to Disneyland. You’ll be in a place where you’re never concerned about hard work, a place where you never feel guilty for goofing off all day, a place where nobody expects anything...

In fact, all the animals laugh when he tries to copy what the other fairies do. So, Mister Fairy travels far from his forest home to another place where, almost by accident, he discovers and shares his special gift. Sometimes your talent is hiding in plain sight; it just takes the right time and place to reveal what was there all along. Mister Fairy is a touching, humorous story about fitting in, self-discovery, and finding one’s place in the world.

This is the story of Mala the rhino, who can't help feeling blue after her friend moves away. Her friends, an owl, a sheep, and a not-so-humble giraffe, get together with sun and create a crazumptious plan to show Mala that blue is as beautiful as all the other colors. This colorful story of friendship and love will delight children while encouraging them to embrace their emotions in a healthy way.

Join Elephant May on a sunny morning escapade as she twirls along practising ballet, aiming to gather delicious fruits for breakfast. Little does she know, an unexpected banana skin turns her plans into a slip-slide adventure down the town's hill! The Slippery Spiral: As May gracefully practices ballet, a slippery banana skin sends her careening down the hill. Will any of her friends be able to stop May?

Treize histoires de la culture traditionnelle et populaire réunies en un livre audio pour sentir battre le cœur de l'Afrique du Sud, à travers l'interprétation de Nicolas de Coulonges. Ces contes africains sages et naïfs, profonds et pleins d'humour, emmèneront petits et grands à la découverte d'une culture féérique à travers une sélection des plus beaux textes transmis par la tradition orale : "L'éléphant et la grenouille", "L'origine des blancs et des nègres", "Pourquoi le crocodile ne mange pas la poule", etc.

Based on real events perpetrated by real people, Who Murdered Mary? is a gripping tale of shortsighted decisions, heartless animal cruelty, and needless murder of an innocent circus elephant that was aided and abetted by mob rule and officials of a prosperous railroad. The tale unfolded during three tumultuous days in September 1916 in the peaceful but ill-fated towns of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Erwin, Tennessee.

Tom Edison and George Westinghouse battled for years over which type of electricity would be the worldwide standard. The Current War incited Tom to electrocute a six-ton elephant named Topsy. It's 1904. Edison is on trial for Topsy's premeditated murder a year earlier. In an unusual legal maneuver, Westinghouse assumed the state's prerogative by retaining the prosecutor, Bourke Cockran, a wealthy Manhattan attorney, federal Congressman, and a mainstay in the Democratic Party.

Things I Would Like to Do with You is about love. A love for a new generation. A love that includes room for independence, change, humor...even loneliness. Poetically searching through four seasons, this is a sweet book to curl up next to a fire and listen to.

Solicitor, journalist, poet, and war veteran, Andrew Barton Paterson is today best known for his colorful and jingoistic verse, in particular The Man from Snowy River. Paterson's prose works include An Outback Marriage (1906), and Three Elephant Power and Other Stories (1917), the latter being a collection of tall tales and serious (but often humorous) reporting.

A short story about an Egyptian young man who wanders around Cairo until he finds himself in the zoo to look at an elephant. He is surprised that the elephant looks at him with the same look as he does, so their minds unite and separate to see the world from the perspective of an elephant tied with a rope to its leg.

When Elephants Fight presents the stories of five children - Annu, Jimmy, Nadja, Farooq and Toma - from five very different and distinct conflicts - Sri Lanka, Uganda, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, and the Sudan. Along with these very personal accounts, the book also offers brief analyses of the history and geopolitical issues that are the canvas on which these conflicts are cast. When Elephants Fight is about increasing awareness.

Scout is the boy with the elephant living in his backyard. In this third audiobook, he is going with his family and Ellie to perform in their circus at a ski resort. Normally, Scout is a regular, silly clown. But this time, Ellie has them doing a crazy, dangerous act together.

Scout and Ellie is a fun audiobook series for kids seven to nine years old who are into laughing and elephants. But this elephant is like no other. She has her own cottage, car, and wild temper. In this book, Scout is expected to help her become Santa Claus. How does he do that when Santa doesn't even exist? Sheesh, the things that kid gets into with that wild animal.

Scout has a circus for a family, and an elephant living in his backyard. Ellie has her own cottage, convertible car, and a way of stampeding chaotic fun into every thing she does. Ellie is such a crazy creature, she even laughs her way through Haunted Halloween Houses. Sheesh, as if she isn't already a menace to be around, now she wants to turn the family house into a place of horror. Scout has to hide his fear of undead creatures, and howling monsters by helping with the family Haunted House.

Ein Bär geht verkleidet als Förster zum Maskenball, die Katze Isabo raucht wie ein Mynheer und denkt nicht mehr ans Mäusefangen, der Käfer, der sich auf der Wiese sonnt, wird zum Philosophen, und Frau Tausendfuß, die große Wäsche macht, ist mit eher praktischen Problemen konfrontiert, muss sie doch tausend Socken auf die Leine klammern. Warum soll ich mein Horn nicht als Musikinstrument nutzen, fragt sich ein Nashorn, übt fleißig und bekehrt sogar die feindliche Löwenhorde zu Freunden der schönen Künste.

An elephant with her own cottage, living in your backyard, should be the best thing ever for a kid, right? Maybe for every other kid on the planet but not for Scout. Well, she's fun, but then there is the wild and the crazy to deal with. Ellie is helping Scout plan his birthday party. Will there be birthday success? Or birthday chaos? Find out in this first book about Scout and Ellie, the boy with the elephant living in his backyard. Oh, and did I mention that his family is a circus? How does a kid stay sane in this family anyway, right?