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The Great American Elephant Chase
By Cross, Gillian
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-82341-016-3
- Publisher
- New York : Holiday House, 1993.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1993
Gr 4-6 Part showboat melodrama, part Dickensian squalor, part Barnum hype, and all adventure, this story works. Using the U. S. map as her stage, Cross sends her hero, Tad, on a headlong journey of discovery across a literary landscape scattered with rivers and towns, actual and invented. Children running away with an elephant and trying to hide it from pursuers is an appealing plot device, and not unique. Vivian Alcock used it well in Travelers by Night (Dell, 1990); Tom Tryon, less successfully in The Adventures of Op...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
