![]() Illustrator’s agent: Holly McGhee, Pippin Properties. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Tua and the Elephant. ![]() Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Nonetheless, Harris’s story, enlivened by Yoo’s gently evocative woodcut illustrations in violet and mustard, avoids overt anthropomorphism of Pohn-Pohn while maintaining the sweet connection between elephant and girl. Tua and the Elephant - Kindle edition by Harris, R.P., Yoo, Taeeun. Her favorite foods, papaya and cilantro salad, chocolate sauce and roti tempt her. She works her way through her Thai village, stopping under the string of lights and taking in the view. Harris Taeeun Yoo (Illustrator) At ten years old, Tua navigates the open air night market as an expert. The final chapters wrap up the story a little too neatly, however, and border on an infomercial about the sanctuary for abused Asian elephants. Tua and the Elephant Tua and the Elephant R. Engagingly filled with Thai vocabulary, food, and customs, and peopled by helpful family members, chums, and kind monks, the book maintains a quick, suspenseful pace. As quick-witted and adventurous as she is warmhearted, Tua undergoes hair-raising escapades to keep Pohn-Pohn out of the villains’ grasp and find her a sanctuary. ![]() The elephant is under the charge of two thieving scoundrels and wordlessly begs Tua to help her escape. ![]() Tua, whose mother is a hardworking waitress, lives an independent life in Chiang Mai, near a popular night market where she finds-and falls in love with-Pohn-Pohn. Harris’s debut, inspired by a trip to the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand, follows nine-year-old Tua and her relationship with an abused elephant, Pohn-Pohn. ![]()
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