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The Saggy Baggy Elephant
Children's fiction
The Saggy Baggy Elephant
24 pages · First published 1947
Sooki is a young elephant whose loose, wrinkly skin makes other animals tease him and leaves him wishing he looked different. He wanders away and encounters a tiger, discovering in the resulting danger that his supposedly awkward body has strengths he never appreciated. The experience changes the way he understands himself. Kathryn and Byron Jackson’s Little Golden Book, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren, is a gentle story about self-acceptance and learning that a trait mocked by others may still belong perfectly to you.
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