Gehörlose Elefanten

Text and illustration by William Benton. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket, 86 p., size: 16 x 13,7 cm. (2001) This sad but ultimately victorious story of deaf elephants is one that you may not have heard before. Indeed, the plight of deaf elephants has gone largely unrecognized by even the most caring pachydermatologists. Author William Benton has set out to change all that. These heroes of the animal kingdom are faced with constant danger. They must endure the thoughtless prejudice of their earred counterparts. Zoos shun them. Yet through it all they prevail. They fall in love, they dance to their own imagined music, and they face the world courageously....