It is a time for celebration when Kate DiCamillo has a new book coming out so, get out the party hats, The Magician’s Elephant lands on our bookshelves September 8th!
On an ordinary day, 10-year-old orphan, Peter, is sent to the market to buy a fish for the dinner of his guardian, Vilna Lutz. But a fortune-teller’s red tent beckons where, for the single coin (given to buy fish), the psychic will tell Peter the answer to one profound and difficult question. Peter’s question? How may he find his sister? The answer? Follow the elephant. Peter is crushed; there are no elephants in his small town.
That same night, a magician is performing rather mediocre magic and wants, just once, to do something stupendous; a trick to inspire his indifferent audience. So when he tries to conjure lilies for Madam Bettine LaVaughn, he actually conjures an elephant.
This is a lovely fable about a lost boy and an even more lost elephant and it is accompanied by the magical art of Yoko Tanaka. ~Patti