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needilup's review against another edition
3.0
lovely story but the violence and the language didn't agree with me.
brandysith's review against another edition
4.0
I knew the story from when I was a child myself, but for the life of me could not remember the title and my Google searching surprising yield the wrong results. But one day this appeared on the NOOK store for free and I was so happy to have found the title and the story again.
leah_markum's review against another edition
4.0
This is a hilarious take on the traditional lessons-learned children's stories. The Elephant's Child was a short-nosed creature that was always curious, but for every question he asked of a relative he got spanked. At one point he wants to know what crocodiles are and what one would have for dinner, gets spanked, but finds out where to go to find a crocodile. He journeys across Africa and finds one. As illustrated on the story's cover, the Elephant's child had a tug-of-war with the hungry crocodile. He returns home with a new, stretched out nose and can spank everyone else as they had spanked him. For a change the child isn't the one who needed to learn a lesson. I could almost laugh, imagining a child going around spanking all the adults that spanked him for asking any kind of question. Talk about setting an example that came around and got you in the butt.
beebliobibuli's review against another edition
3.0
I'm so happy the little elephant is done with all the spanking!
kadrilr's review against another edition
First book I ever read in Swedish...
It was hard, not going to lie. It helped that I had a copy in Estonian next to me, so I could read sentences and words that I didn't understand from there.
It was hard, not going to lie. It helped that I had a copy in Estonian next to me, so I could read sentences and words that I didn't understand from there.
bella_lettore's review against another edition
4.0
This was a cute little book about an elephant getting his trunk while he talks to other animals in the jungle.
dragonwriter's review against another edition
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
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