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Cargando... An Elephant in the Garden (2010)por Michael Morpurgo
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was NOT my cup of tea. Too happy-go-lucky. Karli, the main character's little brother was so sickeningly positive and pleasant, I found myself wishing the elephant would trample him to death. I prefer there to be some degree of darkness and complexity in literature, even children's lit, and this one was just too happy, especially for a WWII novel. Spoiler alert: EVERYONE LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER. EXCEPT HITLER. Keep in mind I'm not the target audience. But still. Blah. I love elephants and historical fiction, and I was intrigued to read something by the author of War Horse, even if I didn't like the movie. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't fantastic. I guess it's been a long time since I've read something so simplistic. Mostly I just lost respect for this book when a 16-year-old girl fell in love at almost-first-sight with a 21-year-old soldier... Probably my favorite character was the Countess. She seemed to have the most realistic role--no wonder, since she was based on a real person. But she had the most nuanced story, I think. I would like to read a whole book about her! Anyway, this was just a filler while I waited to hand Wolf Hallback and get Bring Up the Bodies. It was the shortest book I had, though I didn't finish it as quickly as I might have finished other books. Ah well. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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1944. Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite 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 ... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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