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The Elephant’s Child

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Author(s):Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):Feodor Rojankovsky
Publisher(s): Garden City Publishing Co.
Year Published: 1942
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Fables
Age Range: Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books
Pages: 26
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 472962781
Award(s):
Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942

Description

How an encounter with a crocodile gave the elephant’s child his enormous trunk.

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