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Title: Faithful Elephants : A True Story of Animals, People, and War by Yukio Tsuchiya, Ted Lewin ISBN: 0-395-86137-3 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (19 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Think before you read this one
Comment: It's almost 4 am now, and I am awake, writing a review for this book. For some reason I started thinking about it around 3 am and I couldn't stop crying. The images and the story are stuck in my mind forever, I think. Now, you probably think I read this book today. Well, I didn't. My 7th grade teacher read it to me 10 years ago. I haven't read it since, and have been trying to block the images from my mind for a long time now. I believe it is important to know all sides of any given conflict, and this story about the treatment of animals in a zoo during WWII is no exception. However, I do NOT reccomend reading this book to children, I was 12 years old when it was read to me, and it haunts me to this day. I really wish my teacher hadn't subjected such a young group of students to it. I don't know if I reccomend this book or not, it is beautifully written, but it's a very horrible story. Please think hard before you buy it, or choose to read it to someone.
Rating: 5
Summary: A moving true story...
Comment: The Faithful Elephants is one of the most heart-wrenching stories I have ever read. I use this book to introduce another book -- Hiroshima -- to the high school sophomores that I teach. Adolescents sometimes have difficulty displaying emotion when it comes to others, but that difficulty is gone when animals enter into the picture. Those kids who don't flinch at the thought of the suffering endured by other humans can scarcely hold back tears when it comes to innocent animals. The illustrations have stuck in my mind since I first read it. If you're going to be reading it to others -- read it to yourself first -- it's guaranteed to bring out tears in the least demonstrative of all of us! I highly recommend this book to everyone -- but it may bring out a little too much sorrow in the very young.
Rating: 5
Summary: A difference between the Japanese and English versions
Comment: I've read this book in English and recently in Japanese with the help of a Japanese friend. The Japanese version I read was the same story, but written and illustrated by different people (a man named Mamoru Tanabe was the author of the version I read). At any rate, the Japanese version made mention of something that I don't think is included in this English translation. The official reason from Tokyo for killing the elephants was that in the event that Tokyo was bombed, the cages could be destroyed and the animals might be let loose upon the city. But the book also says that although that was the official reason, the underlying reason that government officials probably had in mind was to show the people of Japan that in this war, they would have to be ready to sacrifice anything for their country. If it was necessary, the lives of animals or even other people would have to be given up for the good of Japan. A previous reviewer mentioned the same thing, but as far as I remember the English version of the story doesn't address that idea at all. So for all those people wondering why the elephants had to die in such a cruel way, there's your answer: to show the Japanese people the true horrors of war, and make them feel ready to sacrifice anything in order to bring that war to an end.
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Title: The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, Joanna Yardley ISBN: 069811390X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 0827603258 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Wall by Ronald Himler, Eve Bunting ISBN: 0395629772 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 24 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee ISBN: 1880000199 Publisher: Lee & Low Books Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki ISBN: 0688012973 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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