The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

I always feel strange when I talk about this, because it sounds so weird, but I had this kind of like vision of a magician. KDC: I was in New York City on a business trip and I was in the lobby of a hotel, waiting to meet a friend. LW: So my first question is: what inspired you to tell this story to begin with? KDC: Oh, well, I’m equally thrilled! So, okay! Let’s do it! So I was so excited when I got this opportunity to talk to you. So I read The Tale of Desperaux and the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. And I loved Winn-Dixie so much that I went through, and I looked for your name in our library. I was in maybe third grade when I read Winn-Dixie? And I remember every Friday we’d have to go to the library and pick out a new book. Kate DiCamillo: Oh, can I tell you how thrilling that is to me? So, Winn-Dixie was the first book that you found and then you like, looked for my name on something else? I’m very excited to be talking to you today because you were one of the first authors that I actually actively followed in elementary school. I had the opportunity to speak with Kate about the film and the process of having a novel adapted to the screen (but not without first sharing how much I loved reading her books growing up). Now, the author’s 2009 novel, The Magician’s Elephant, comes to Netflix in a new animated adaptation. Many of these have been adapted to the screen, including Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), The Tale of Desperaux (2008), and Flora and Ulysses (2021). He realizes that the poor animal is heartbroken and wants to go home, so he promises to help.Author Kate DiCamillo is best known for an array of children’s fiction classics. Peter goes to the countess’s house and sees the elephant.

Police officer Leo Matienne, who lives below Peter, tells him that the countess is putting the elephant on display the following Saturday. However, a countess who desperately wants attention soon buys the elephant and places it in her ballroom. Peter can’t find the elephant’s exact location. The magician is in jail, and, since he failed to send the elephant back to where it came from, the pesky pachyderm resides in a horse stable. Then one day he hears that a magician conjured one, which promptly fell through the roof of the city’s opera house and crippled Madame La Vaughn.

She will lead you there,” the fortune teller says. The fortune teller confirms that Peter’s sister is still alive, but finding her won’t be easy. But when he sees the fortune teller, Peter knows he can’t leave the market without asking about his long-lost sister, whom he’s been told is dead. Orphan Peter Augustus Duchene walks to the market in Baltese to buy food as his guardian, the former soldier Vilna Lutz, instructed.

The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo