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About The Book : Excerpt from Kari the Elephant; It was not an easy job, as you see, to get twigs and saplings for Kari. I had to climb all kinds of trees to get the most delicate and tender twigs. As he was very fond of the young branches of the banian tree which grows like a cathedral of leaves and branches, I was gathering some, one spring day in March, when I suddenly heard Kari calling to me in the distance. As he was still very young, the call was more like that of a baby than an elephant. I thought somebody was hurting him, so I came down from my tree and ran very fast to the edge of the forest where I had left him, but he was not there. Kari, the loyal elephant, Kopee, the monkey known for making bad decisions, and their nine-year-old master head right into the middle of the jungle on an adventurous journey.Vivid episodes of encounters with a venomous snake, a herd of untamed elephants and forest fires, make Kari the Elephant an unusual tale of three friends growing up together. The endearing elephant reappears in Hari the Jungle Lad, which traces a young boy’s life after a flood washes away his home, leaving him to survive in the jungle. His thrill-a-minute life in the forest, complete with face-offs with deadly carnivores and friendly monkeys, and finally his search for the marked elephant who proves to be a saviour, unfold in a gripping story. About The Author : Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890–1936) was the only Indian- American writer to have won the John Newbery Medal in 1928 for his distinguished contribution to American Literature for Children. Born in a jungle village, Kajangal, near Calcutta, India, he went to the United States at the age of 19. Educated at the University of California and Stanford University, Mukerji was the first popular Indian writer in English. He began his most prolific period of writing when he moved to New York in the 1920s. Kari the Elephant was the first to see publication, in 1922, followed by Hari the Jungle Lad in 1924 and Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon in 1927.