How to Catch an Elephant

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Fun with optics! Or something!

This is just weird. I think I had heard this story before, maybe in a shorter version like a joke. Basically, it says that in order to catch an elephant, you need cakes, raisins, a telescope, and a pair of tweezers. Because apparently, elephants love raisins but hate cake. Like the existence of cake just makes them angry. This is the weirdest, most surreal book. After some antics with cake and raisins, you're supposed to look through the telescope backwards so the elephant is tiny, and then pick it up with the tweezers. And that's it. Okay...? It's basically a long, drawn-out illustration of a surreal joke. It's not very funny. There's no point, no plot, and no real message. And the drawings are odd. It's one of those books where the style looks like something the average person could learn to draw in a month or two. It's very strange.

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Publication Year
1999
Age Range
8-12
Number of Pages
40
Number of words on a typical page
30