Lizzie's mother, a zookeeper, persuades the zoo director to allow Marlene, an orphaned elephant that has bonded with Lizzie and her younger brother, Karl, to be kept in their garden; when Dresden is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others but with an elephant in tow.
In 1944, Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite animal is the elephant, Marlene. When the animals must be killed to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden.
- ISBN10 0312593694
- ISBN13 9780312593698
- Publish Date 25 October 2011 (first published 1 January 1950)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Feiwel & Friends
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English