Faithful elephants
Subtitle: a true story of animals, people, and war
By: Yukio Tsuchiya ; illustrated by Ted Lewin ; translated by Tomoko Tsuchiya Dykes.
Contributors: Lewin, Ted, ill.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Elephants -- Juvenile fiction; Elephants -- Fiction; Zoo keepers -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Fiction
Description: Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them.
Notes: Translation of: Kawaisō na zō.