THE FIRST ELEPHANT COMES TO IRELAND

by Nathan Zimelman ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1969

Sure and it's blarney about a roving circus elephant who's taken by miserly MacSweeney for the devil, taken by the villagers of burning Blaney for the Dublin Fire Department, taken at his worth (plowing, pitching thatch) by farmboy Fergie O'Neill, taken as a chance to display his erudition by schoolmaster Donal Flaherty and taken back to the circus by a Gallagher & Sheehan team. The humor is one-tenth credulity, nine-tenths dialect--and some of that is highly dubious: ""a man who had the look about him of one who did not keep a place for the liking of people free in his heart."" The pictures are more accomplished and much further from caricature.

Pub Date: March 1, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Follett

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: CHILDREN'S