01289cam a2200217 4500 513444416 TxAuBib 20101020120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616641726 161664172X TxAuBib Nicholson, Christopher. The elephant keeper. Paperback. New York, NY : William Morrow, 2009. 298p. In 1773, Tom Page writes a history of the well-trained elephant, Jenny, and his life as a humble groom for the Harrington family's elephants that he learned to care for as a teenager. Lizzy Tindall, a bold young maid, endears herself to Tom and his elephants, but when Jenny is sold she urges Tom to stay--that Jenny is only an elephant. Tom, outraged, chooses to go with Jenny. The animal and keeper communicate, converse even, in their quarters in the elephant house. The pair subsequently move from master to master, ending up in a miserable menagerie in London. Befogged and befuddled in the cruel city, an aged Tom strays from Jenny only to discover that his respect for the tenderhearted elephant is singular. 20101020. Elephants -- Fiction.