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Merrill, Jean

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars

40 pp. | NYRB | March, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59017-872-0 $14.95
Reissue (1967, Pantheon)
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Ronni Solbert. An elephant loves to flatten small cars. After he destroys all the small cars at a car dealership, the owner reopens a "big car" lot--and those cars smash the elephant, into a tree, a house, and finally a lake. The chastised (and unscathed) elephant changes his destructive ways. The childlike text and simple art are effective and enjoyable in this reissue.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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