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October 17, 2006

How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse?

Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy's punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom of a tail, and wash behind its ears, and, above all, keep it from doing any work.

Oh, if only Run-Run could make the magnificent white elephant disappear! Clever as a magician, he does—but the curse has tricks of its own for Run-Run.


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  • Hardcover: 112 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (October 17, 2006)
  • ISBN-10: 0061131369
  • ASIN: B001O9CCX4
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces

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