The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

For this reason, this website presents for you to cover your problem. We reveal you some referred publications The Elephant Who Liked To Smash Small Cars, By Jean Merrill in all types and also motifs. From common writer to the famous one, they are all covered to provide in this internet site. This The Elephant Who Liked To Smash Small Cars, By Jean Merrill is you're searched for book; you just should visit the web link web page to show in this website and then choose downloading. It will not take often times to obtain one publication The Elephant Who Liked To Smash Small Cars, By Jean Merrill It will depend on your web connection. Simply acquisition as well as download and install the soft documents of this book The Elephant Who Liked To Smash Small Cars, By Jean Merrill

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

Free Ebook The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

What is your favorite thing to do in the whole world? Whatever it is, odds are that you don’t like doing it as much as the elephant in this book enjoys smashing small cars. He’ll smash any small car that drives down his road. He smashes yellow cars, he smashes blue cars, he smashes red cars, all the while singing a special car-smashing song. Then one day a man comes to town and opens a small-car store right on the elephant’s road. You can probably guess what the elephant does next, but the real fun starts when the man turns the tables on the elephant—and his plan is a smashing success.  Jean Merrill’s story of gleeful destruction, revenge, and conciliation is accompanied by Ronni Solbert’s colorful crayon drawings. Rarely has property damage looked so adorable.

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

• Amazon Sales Rank: #220677 in Books
• Brand: Merrill, Jean/ Solbert, Ronni (ILT)
• Published on: 2015-03-10
• Released on: 2015-03-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.16" h x .38" w x 9.77" l, 1.25 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

Review "This bare-bones story is as mischievous and subversive as all get-out, and it makes me laugh. It’s just what the title tells you: An elephant, who is way into the destruction of public property, learns his lesson when he meets a car salesman who won’t put up with it. The spare crayon drawings and make-no-apologies story of destruction (what toddler doesn’t like to smash things?) is unlike anything else you’ll see this year, most likely—and was quite possibly unlike anything else seen back in 1964." —Julie Danielson, Kirkus"What is wonderful about this reissue – the book was first published nearly 50 years ago – is that it plays along merrily with a child’s need to smash, squash and exterminate.” —The Guardian “From bubble wrap to bugs, the urge to smash and smush seems to be a part of the human condition. Just think of that group of four-year-olds building towers of blocks and then merrily knocking them down. Or those older kids bashing into each other during recess. Here’s a wonderfully subversive little book that captures the joy of that impulse and highlights the results. A perfect read aloud for all ages.” —Monica Edinger, author of Africa Is My Home and proprietor of the blog Educating Alice "The greatest title in the history of book selling. Plus: a song." —Tom Nissley, owner of Phinney Books, Seattle

About the Author

Jean Merrill (1923–2012) was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up on a dairy and apple farm near Lake Ontario. She received a master’s degree in English literature from Wellesley in 1945 and later studied folklore in India on a Fulbright fellowship. She worked for many years as an editor at Scholastic Magazine, Literary Cavalcade, and the publications department of Bank Street College before turning to writing full time. Her first book, Henry, the Hand-Painted Mouse, was published in 1951 and her last, The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars: A Twelfth-Century Tale from Japan, in 1992. In between she wrote some thirty books for young readers, including The Pushcart War (1964; available from The New York Review Children’s  Collection), The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars (1967), and The Toothpaste Millionaire (1977).  Ronni Solbert (b. 1925) was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Vassar and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. As a Fulbright recipient she studied folk and tribal art in India. She has illustrated more than forty children’s books and written and illustrated three of her own. As a painter, sculptor, and photographer she has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. 

Where to Download The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

Most helpful customer reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Thirty years ago it was one of my son's favorite library books By Kindle Customer This one seems to offend modern sensibilities, but it was written 50 years ago. Thirty years ago it was one of my son's favorite library books, although I couldn't say why. He was four years old. Whether it was the inherent violence that appealed to the young caveman in him, the fact the bad elephant got retribution in the end, or something else entirely I will never know. I purchased a copy of the new edition and had my now 31 year old "boy" read it. He doesn't remember it at all, has no idea why he liked it, but admits he can see where he would have enjoyed it immensely. Go ahead, modern parents. Your children have enough of a grasp of reality to handle it. They won't run out and start hitting your elephant with toy cars. If they do, you have more problems than can be addressed in an Amazon review.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Smashing cars, smashing cars ... By Amazon Customer Forget the kids - I fell in love with this book for the first time at age 35! I "discovered" it on the discards table at my library. Intrigued by the rather lengthy title (which is an apropos summary of the story), I read the book on the spot and wouldn't let anyone else touch it! Delighted, I shared it with my co-workers, who thought it equally as delightful and tried to get me to part with it. Combine simplistic illustrations, a silly story, with a hint of a plot twist and you've got this zany yet charming story that will tickle funny bones of kids no matter their age!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. SMASHING 'S FUN! By Caroline Bawden This book is just adorable! My husband and 12 year old son laughed so hard when they read it. I don't think they write childrens' books like this anymore because our society has become so oversensitive about such issues as "animal abuse" and "corporeal punishment". This naughty elephant never hurts the small cars again because he is punished with big cars and doesn't want to get hurt again himself. Very cute illustrations!

See all 18 customer reviews... The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

---

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill PDF
The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill iBooks
The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill ePub
The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill rtf
The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill AZW
The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill Kindle

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill