An elephant in the garden /
Michael Morpurgo ; illustrated by Michael Foreman
- 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
It's 1944. Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favourite animal is an elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her ... and then the bombs start to fall
9780007339587
Children's stories Elephants --Fiction Refugees --Fiction World War, --1939-1945--Fiction War stories