Elephant Fiction

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.

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 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?

Scout and Ellie: The Beauty Pageant is written for an audience of seven- to nine-year-olds who like to laugh. It is the silly antics of an elephant who acts like a human with the attitude of a spoiled, fun-filled child. She lives in her own house in Scout's back yard. In this episode, Scout is coaxed into helping her try to win a beauty pageant. The scenes can get crazy and may cause children to laugh out loud!

Durch diese Ausgabe des Kinderkartonhauses flitzen viele tierische Seltsamkeiten: Wild gewordene Möhrenschweine, komisch gefärbte Elefanten - und es gibt einen neuen Fall für Kommissar Hüpf! Ada und das Möhrenschwein: Ada kann es kaum erwarten, genau wie ihr Opa ein großer Hexenmeister zu werden. Als sie eines Tages alleine im Turm ist, packt sie die Gelegenheit beim Schopf und zaubert ein Schwein herbei.

Was tut man, wenn spätabends ein Elefant ans Fenster klopft? Wenn dieser Elefant aus dem Zoo ausgebrochen ist, um seine Großfamilie in Afrika zu besuchen? Und wenn er gar nicht weiß, wo Afrika überhaupt liegt? Man packt Äpfel, Kekse und einen Globus in den Rucksack und begleitet ihn. Genau das tun Joscha und Marie. So weit wird Afrika nicht sein, denken sie und erleben eine Reise, die alles übertrifft, was sie sich vorgestellt haben.

Il était une fois un grand éléphant, fort comme une montagne. Il répondait au doux nom de Roméo et il était heureux. Enfin, presque... Il avait juste un petit problème. Un tout petit problème de rien du tout mais qui l'embêtait beaucoup. Il était timide, très très très timide.

Pim is a baby aardvark, with a long, furry nose. He has tiny little claws instead of fingers and toes, and sleeps in a cosy burrow. But he isn't sure what being an aardvark really means. He asks his mother all sorts of questions, and she decides it is time he found out what being an aardvark is all about. In his quest to discover the world around him, he meets lots of exotic and interesting animals. There are snakes, cheetahs, elephants, and monkeys, and they all have something to teach him.

The Last Elephant in New York City is the story of Maxwell, a Ghanaian wildlife ranger, Jessie, an American researcher, and the elephant that united them. On a decades-long mission of compassion, this is a journey of heartbreak, hope, and redemption, laid out in snapshots, like memory itself. Illustrating the worst and best of humanity, it's a glimpse of parallel worlds - the ongoing sorrows of African elephant poaching and the struggles of life for elephants in zoos. Listen to it with someone you love.

Here's a humorous collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, the man behind the much-loved Just So Stories. "The Elephant's Child" tells the charming story of a baby elephant whose curiosity gets the best of him, while "The Cat Who Walked by Himself" tells the fanciful story of a cat who lived during a time when men lived in caves and all animals were wild.

Eight fanciful tales from Rudyard Kipling's book of animal origin tales, which began as bedtime stories told to his daughter Essie. They are called Just So Stories because Essie would not let Kipling deviate from the tale by even one word: They had to be told "just so".

Gleich an Lillis erstem Tag in der neuen Schule geht alles schief: Zuerst zieht sie den Hass der fiesen Mädchenclique auf sich, und dann verschreckt sie auch noch den bei allen beliebten Jasahja! Dabei wollte Lilli ihr Geheimnis dieses Mal doch besonders gut hüten.

Erin Wrenn and her friend David are in big trouble because they refuse to go on a field trip to the Glitter Tent Circus. They wrote a report on the sad lives of circus animals, and discovered that the Glitter Tent Circus is one of the worst animal abusers of all. Mrs. Dawson is determined to give her students the happy circus experience she remembers from her childhood; she won't let Erin and David share their report or pass around a petition asking for a different field trip.

A colleague of Dr. Watson asks Sherlock Holmes for help: His patient Joseph Merrick, known in public as the "elephant man", because of his strong physical deformations, was the victim of a brutal assault. Holmes and Watson take over the case, which takes them to the circus milieu.

Elbert and Tommy are in the same class at school, but they seem to be very different students. They have completely different talents and interests. Is it possible to make friends with someone who is different from you? How can people with different interests learn from one another and help one another? This fun children's book uses animals and sports to show how different people can learn to get along with one another.