Twenty Elephant Restaurant (Pocket Bears) [Paperback]

Russell Hoban (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Pocket Bears | Publication Date: July 11, 1985

A man builds a new table sturdy enough for an elephant to dance on and works up to a restaurant with twenty dancing elephants.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd (July 11, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 090714490X
• ISBN-13: 978-0907144908
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,099,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars so wonderful I can't believe this has never been reviewed, September 18, 2004

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Victor J. Bennetts (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Twenty-Elephant Restaurant (Library Binding)

I first read this book fifteen or so years ago when I was a university student. I was studying literature at the time and had just read Riddley Walker. I had the privilege to hear Hoban speak at the time and read from Pilgerman which was then a work in progress. As for this book, I noticed Hoban had also written children's stories so I started collecting them. I will just say Twenty Elephant Restaurant is one of the most simple, wonderful and beautiful things ever written. I now read it and other of RH's stories to my children who love them. Thank you and god bless you Mr Hoban.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For every restauranteur you know, December 18, 2005

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Gwynne C. Spencer (Mancos, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Twenty-Elephant Restaurant (Library Binding)

Everybody knows somebody who owns a restaurant or WANTS to own a restaurant. This is the book for them! it is also a book for woodworkers and artisans who value perfection in their work (the owner of the 20 Elephant restaurant hates a table that wobbles and you need to put a matchbook under the leg even BEFORE the elephants dance on it). In a perfect world, every town would have a 20 Elephant Restaurant where talents and craftsmanship are valued more highly than "you want fries with that?" and paper hats.