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Title
Faithful elephants : a true story of animals, people, and war (39504)
Physical Illustrated
Produced 1988
Distributor Houghton Mifflin (0852)
Audience Primary, Intermediate (PI)
Collection Professional Library
Synopsis Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them. This story is read once a year on Japanese radio to commemorate Japan's surrender in W.W. II.
Author Tsuchiya, Yukio
Added autho Lewin, Ted
Dimensions 26 cm.
ISBN# 0395861373 (pbk.)
Pub. Loc. Boston
Notes Translation of: Kawaiso na zo.
C.C. Thinking: Critical and Reflective Thinking
Parts [32] p.
Stmt Resp Yukio Tsuchiya ; illustrated by Ted Lewin ; translated by Tomoko Tsuchiya Dykes.
Subjects Poetry Circles(CK); Critical thinking; Elephants—Fiction; Historical fiction; World War, 1939-1945—Japan—Fiction; Core competency picture books(CK); Picture Books(CK); Lewin, Ted,—ill(A)
Call# E TSU
Holdings
Book 1 copy

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