I found The Magician’s Elephant on my library website – in that carousel of recently reviewed books that shows up before you log into your account. I’m a sucker for elephants, even more so now that my elephant loving child is pregnant, so I reserved it without even knowing what it was. (I didn’t even notice the author was Kim DiCamillo – Tale of Desperaux and Because of Winn Dixie.)
Turns out it’s a middle grade science fiction book about… an elephant, a magician’s elephant that causes all sorts of things to happen and leads everyone to a happily ever after ending.
The book is a wee bit dark and some 10 year olds may not like it for that reason. Oddly enough, I wondered about what kind of movie it might make and what do I find when I take a peek at the Amazon reviews… it’s going to be a movie. (Maybe. There’s no release date and the only news I’ve found indicated someone was hired to write a script based on the book, and that happened 3 years ago. So. There we go. Maybe a movie? Maybe not.)