![]() ![]() When Karl and his mother sit down to listen, Lizzie spins the extraordinary saga of her life as a young girl in Dresden, at the time of World War II. He's the only one who takes seriously an elderly woman named Lizzie (Elizabeth) when she tells him about Marlene, the elephant that lived in her garden. Inspired by historical truth and the author's self-professed love of elephants, this novel tells a story within a story a young boy named Karl visits his mother at the nursing home where she works in present day England. (October 2011) is another moving story of a family and an animal in wartime, this time set during the Second World War and involving a somewhat more unusual animal-an elephant. His most recent book to be published in the U.S. ![]() ![]() British author Michael Morpurgo, who's written more than 100 books for young people, is currently in the limelight as the author of War Horse, the World War I novel on which the current Steven Spielberg film and hit play are based. ![]()
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