How to Catch An Elephant
By DK Publishing
(DK CHILDREN, Paperback, 9780789481856, 40pp.)
Publication Date: October 2001
Categories: General
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Here's the secret. Follow your uncle's advice and take to the jungle "3 cakes, 2 raisins, 1 telescope, and a pair of tweezers." Find a tree and wait for an elephant. If the elephant is angry, obstreperous, and hungry...hold on, be brave--things are not always what they seem.
Amy Schwartz has written and illustrated many classic picture books, among them Bea and Mr. Jones, a "Reading Rainbow" Feature, Oma and Bobo, Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner, and A Teeny Tiny Baby, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. She lives with her husband, historian and critic Leonard Marcus, and their son, Jacob, in Brooklyn, New York.











