Sue Coe bibliography of work in BLAB!
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Sue Coe, Ghost Sheep Blab! 13 Autumn 2002 |
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Sue Coe and Judy Brody Weapons of Mass Destruction Blab! 14 Autumn 2003 |
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Sue Coe, The Man with No Heart New & Used Blab!, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003 |
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Sue Coe and Judith Brody Fowl Plague Blab! 15 Autumn 2004 |
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Sue Coe and Judith Brody Run Blab! 16 Autumn 2005 |
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Sue Coe and Judith Brody Hurricane Blab! 17 Autumn 2006 |
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Sue Coe and Kim Stallwood An Elephant Never Forgets Blab! 18 Autumn 2007 |
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 An Elephant Never Forgets chronicles the life of a circus elephant named Topsy. Her life begins and ends in murder: first her mother was killed, to make Topsy's capture possible. Ultimately, in a 1903 demonstration designed by Thomas Edison to prove the dangers of AC current, Topsy herself was publicly electrocuted. In between, the newly orphaned Topsy endured a sea voyage from India to America, imprisonment and slavery in a circus, where keepers fed her whiskey and harshly trained her to perform 'silly tricks'. When a man dropped a lit cigarette on her tongue, she threw him to the ground, killing him. The site of her execution at Luna Park had once been occupied by The Elephant Hotel, which operated as a brothel and burned in 1896. |
| see also Sue Coe's Elephant Tales |
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