How to Catch An Elephant - Softcover

DK Publishing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751307440 ISBN 13: 9780751307443

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

If you've ever told a joke you know how much depends on delivery. Here is a joke told and pictured in perfect pitch about a journey into the wilds where elephants live and about the fun of catching one - a process that is utterly logical and utterly nuts. To begin: "3 cakes 2 raisins 1 telescope and a pair of tweezers. That's what you need to catch an elephant". Add to these an intrepid young girl her uncle (the one giving the advice) and an elephant - or yellowphant for he is gloriously buttercoloured - and you have the perfect combination for catching a child's imagination. "Elephants are crazy about raisins" the girl's uncle has said. "An elephant hates cake". How the raisins cakes telescope and tweezers all play a part in delighting enraging and finally shrinking the great beast to a manageable size is the story.

About this title

About the Author

Amy Schwartz has written and illustrated many classic picture books, among them Bea and Mr. Jones, a "Reading Rainbow" Feature, Oma and Bobo, Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner, and A Teeny Tiny Baby, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. She lives with her husband, historian and critic Leonard Marcus, and their son, Jacob, in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751307440
• ISBN 13: 9780751307443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40