Incredible Jumbo (Puffin Books)

by Barbara Smucker

Book Overview

In the 1870's, a young boy helps care for the enormous African elephant that is the London Zoo's feature attraction and accompanies him to America to become part of P.T. Barnum's circus. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140342354
• ISBN13: 9780140342352
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.5" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Easy read, lovingly written

Easy read, lovingly written in well turned light prose for young readers.A novel, but mostly factual, about the life and death of the great African elephant known as Jumbo who died in a rail accident at St. Thomas, Ontario, in 1885.The fictional portion is a story thread about a young English boy who becomes best friends with Jumbo. Well worth reading for any age but ideally suited to be read by children.