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Walsh, S. Kirk

Summary: "Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Walsh

Rankin, Ellan

Summary: Inspired by a true story, a remarkable friendship between a baby elephant and her keeper shows that kindness is never forgotten. Includes a note about the zookeeper named Denise Weston Austin who protected the baby Asian elephant named Sheila during World War II in Belfast.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAN

Walsh, S. Kirk

Summary: "The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

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