The Elephant | Peter Carnavas |

Rs 699.00

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GBKPENG3116

At the heart of a great children’s book is a great story.
The Elephant does just that – it tells the heart-breaking and heart-mending story of Olive, her father, and her Grandad. Olive’s father carries around a sadness, and always has. This sadness is so big and so heavy that Olive imagines it as a huge grey elephant, plodding around behind him, weighing down everything he does. Nothing can break through it; not even Olive and her jokes. It’s just always there – plodding along.
Olive is tired of it. Her mum is gone, and she wants her dad back. She decides to get rid of the elephant and her father’s sadness, but it’s hard moving something so big. Olive gets her best friend Arthur to help her, and Grandad, but even Grandad seems to be carrying around a sadness – this one, a tortoise. Olive goes on adventure to banish the grey from her family’s lives, and this involves gramophones, paper planes, and bicycles, but it will be a lot harder than she thinks. And then there’s that secret she hasn’t told anyone about…