W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Faithful elephants :

Tsuchiya, Yukio, 1904-1999.

Faithful elephants : a true story of animals, people, and war / Yukio Tsuchiya ; illustrated by Ted Lewin ; translated by Tomoko Tsuchiya Dykes. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1988. - [32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Translation of: Kawaiso na zo.

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.

Guided reading: M Grade level: 4.9 Lexile: 640L

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Elephants--Juvenile fiction.
Animal welfare--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.


Japan--Juvenile fiction.

QL737.P98 / T7813 1988

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