The Child's Elephant

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<p><i>'I cannot trumpet this book loudly enough. Scary, funny, romantic, heartwarming; an elephant book you wont forget' -</i><b><i>Michael Morpurgo</b></i> <i><b></b></i> <i><b></i></b>When a baby elephant is abandoned on the African savannah, a young boy named Bat takes her back to his village and cares for her. But Bat's grandmother explains that Meya cannot stay with them for ever - the call of the wild will always be sounding in her soul.</p><p>Then frightening rumours arrive at the village; rumours of kidnapping, suffering and war. Bat and his friend Muka are snatched, and catapulted into a new life of unimaginable terror. Will the bond between Bat and Meya strong enough to save them?</p><p>A thrilling, heartbreaking and beautiful novel from an exciting new voice in children's books, Rachel Campbell-Johnston.</p>

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Rachel Campbell-Johnston is the chief art critic and poetry critic for<i>The Times</i>. She studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and has a PhD in modern and contemporary British poetry. Her first book,<i>Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer</i>, was published to great acclaim in 2011. Rachel lives in the country with her family and an assortment of animals.<i>The Child's Elephant</i>is her first book for children.

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