- Children's fiction, Vacations, fiction, Indonesia, fiction, Jungles, fiction
When 10-year-old Will's father dies in the Iraq war, his mother surprises him with a trip to Indonesia. She couldn't have known what awaited them both there. The first Will knows that anything is wrong is when Oona, the elephant he is riding along the beach, begins to spook.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Morpurgo
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Promotion, HarperCollins Children's Books, Gallimard jeunesse
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007456161
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