SuitabookFriendship and perseverance
Otto continues searching for Georgie, his childhood friend, with Crackers accompanying him through the pursuit.
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Bill Slavin - Author
Expect a fast-moving graphic adventure built around Otto’s search for Georgie. Humour comes through mishaps, disguises and visual gags, while the journey also brings imprisonment, abduction, animal smuggling and humans’ treatment of animals.
Otto the elephant continues his search for his childhood friend Georgie, a chimpanzee who was abducted from their forest home in Africa and shipped to the wilds of America by the Man with the Wooden Nose. When Otto sees a circus poster with a chimp that looks just like Georgie, he and his parrot friend, Crackers, follow the trail of the traveling circus. Along the way, they crash a football game, steal a peanut-shaped car and get thrown in jail. Will Otto and Crackers find Georgie? Or will trouble find them first? Big Top Otto is the second book in the Elephants Never Forget series chronicling the hilarious adventures of the tenacious pachyderm, Otto, and his wisecracking parrot pal, Crackers. Told with gentle humor and lots of visual gags, this series is an action-packed celebration of friendship and perseverance.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceExpect a fast-moving graphic adventure built around Otto’s search for Georgie. Humour comes through mishaps, disguises and visual gags, while the journey also brings imprisonment, abduction, animal smuggling and humans’ treatment of animals.
Otto continues searching for Georgie, his childhood friend, with Crackers accompanying him through the pursuit.
Georgie is abducted and may be connected with a circus; the pursuit later reaches a front for exotic-animal smugglers, and animals are reportedly hunted for sport.
Otto and Crackers cause or encounter comic disruption, including a crashed football game, a stolen peanut-shaped car, imprisonment and Otto’s explosive sneezes.
Consider discussing the contrast between comic animal characters who speak and wear clothes and the humans’ power to abduct, confine, smuggle or hunt animals. The humorous tone may make that contrast easy to overlook.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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