JUMBO THE BOY AND ARNOLD THE ELEPHANT

by Dan Greenburg ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, 1969

The title tells all: a baby boy and a baby elephant, swapped by a nearsighted hospital nurse and accepted by love-blind parents, are raised as if each were what he should be; and while Arnold the elephant adjusts quite well, Jumbo the boy can't overlook his lack of ears, trunk and tail, not even with cardboard substitutes. What is Jumbo, his putative parents wonder. Exhausting animal possibilities, they arrive at the answer--or rather, the answer arrives in the form of Mr. Stiles, the zookeeper, who helps to straighten everybody out. Susan Perl's drawings are mildly amusing and, considering the situation, quite cunning; but the humor is as broad as an elephant's backside and the single joke is stretched to span his circumference.

Pub Date: March 3, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: CHILDREN'S