Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War by Yukio Tsuchiya

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War

Yukio Tsuchiya with Tomoko Tsuchiya Dykes (Translator), Ted Lewin (Illustrator)

missing page info Add in missing page information first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction historical hopeful sad slow-paced

Description

A zoo keeper recounts the story of John, Tonky, and Wanly, three performing elephants that were starved to death at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo during World War II, and of their keepers, who weep and pray that the war will end so their beloved elephants...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 43 reviews

Average rating

4.3

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.