Encore for Eleanor
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Encore for Eleanor is a children's picture book written by Bill Peet. It is about a circus elephant who loves the spotlight even after retirement. It was originally published in 1981 by the Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.
Plot[edit]
Eleanor the elephant is the only circus elephant to ever had performed her act while walking on a tall pair of stilts. After a terrible fall, she is forced into retirement. As she rides away from the circus in a seven-ton truck, she quakes from her trunk to her toes wondering where she is going. She ends up in a neat little red barn in the city zoo, under a shady sycamore tree. But Eleanor is not happy unless she can do something clever to earn her keep. One day she discovers she has a talent for drawing, and the amazed zoo director sets up a show for her so she can once again hear people calling out "Encore for Eleanor, once more Eleanor once more!".[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Peet, Bill (1981). Encore for Eleanor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-38367-4.