Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780192774521 |
ISBN 10 | 0192774522 |
Author | Gillian Cross |
Language | English |
Book Description | A brilliant, galloping historical adventure story by one of my favourite writers.' Emma Carroll A giant Indian elephant. A wild journey across America. An enemy who will never stop. Tad and Cissie are on the run with Khush the elephant. Clammy fingered, steely-eyed Hannibal Jackson will do anything to capture the animal. Maybe even kill . . . Staying ahead means being faster and smarter-but how do you hide an elephant? Especially one with a mind of its own. |
About the Author | Gillian Cross has been writing children's books for over thirty years. Before that, she took English degrees at Oxford and Sussex Universities, and she has had various jobs including working in a village bakery and being an assistant to a Member of Parliament. She is married with four children and lives in Dorset. Her hobbies include orienteering and playing the piano. She won the Carnegie Medal for Wolf and the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Great Elephant Chase. |
Publication Date | 2020-02-06 |
Number of Pages | 304 pages |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The Great Elephant Chase