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The way home

by Judith Benet Richardson · 1991

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Unable to convince her baby to leave the beach where they have spent the day playing, a mother elephant uses inventive means to draw her young one away to home and safety.

Themes
mother daughtermother daughterMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrenspicture books
Length
short · 32 pages

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