![]() ![]() But above all, the vagaries of female desire, which for some is about a wish to be cared for, while for others takes the form of wanting to control or be controlled. Irritation with weak or overly dependent men. Female subjugation, exploitation, and humiliation. Self-sabotaging behavior, including deliberately harmful lies. What do these women talk about when they talk about love? Affairs with older professors. Her unnamed narrator, a troubled young woman, reports on a series of conversations with various other women - a classmate's mother, fellow graduate students, fellow single mothers - over a span of 17 years following her graduation from college in 2000. In Miranda Popkey's slim but potent first novel, Topics of Conversation, sex, desire, and failed relationships are ever at the fore. Not just from accused men proclaiming their innocence, but from a wave of novels (including Mary Gaitskill's This Is Pleasure, and Sally Rooney's Normal People) reminding us that relationships and female desire can be complicated and quirky. You knew it was bound to happen: the pushback against the #MeToo movement, the arguments for nuance. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Libraries and bookshops across Britain held Elmer themed events.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Topics of Conversation Author Miranda Popkey was declared Elmer's Day by publisher Andersen Press. The stories are suitable for early exploration of the themes and issues relating to the concept of Diversity. Elmer (1989 originally published in 1968) After an initial engagement in Toronto (December 2017), Elmer the Patchwork Elephant show embarked upon a tour of the UK in January 2019. ![]() Sophie Aldred also read his first story which was also animated by Mike Hibbert in an episode of Words and Pictures from 1993, featuring the letter E.Ī musical stage version created by Jonathan Rockefeller was adapted by Suzanne Maynard Miller, with songs by Allison Leyton-Brown. The story of Elmer was originally narrated by British voice actor Johnny Morris, who died on, aged 82. His first story is also featured and animated in Anytime Tales, a storytelling animated programme narrating five of David McKee and Tony Ross' stories. Following their happy reunion, the elephants reassure Elmer that they love him because of his differences, and not in spite of them, and they celebrate by painting themselves in multi-coloured paint (and Elmer paints himself grey), in recognition of Elmer's unique appearance and personality.Įlmer the Patchwork Elephant also features in a wide range of merchandising. When it begins to rain, the grey paint that Elmer has covered himself with starts to disappear, and Elmer's "true colours" are revealed, much to the delight of his friends, who preferred his multicoloured and fun loving personality. The other elephants immediately realise that the grey elephant must be Elmer and applaud him for his best joke ever. He returns to the herd and the other elephants stand quietly, until Elmer can't take the quiet any more and he lifts his trunk and then, at the top of his voice, shouting "Boo!", which unknowingly surprises the other elephants. Once painted, they - and the other jungle creatures - no longer recognise him. One day, Elmer decides that he wants to look like all the other elephants, and paints himself grey in order to 'blend in'. The stories are suitable for early exploration of cultural diversity. He has a cheerful and optimistic personality, and he loves practical jokes. Satoshi Kitamura carried out the Japanese translation.Įlmer is an elephant with yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, black and white squares arranged as a patchwork. Forty-one book titles have been created since 1989, and the series has sold more than eight million copies in fifty languages around the world. The books are published in the United Kingdom by Andersen Press and were published in the United States by HarperCollins originally, Andersen press USA now publishes in America. It was inspired by the mascot of the Bordeaux zoo (which closed in 1974) in France. Book cover for Elmer the Patchwork ElephantĮlmer the Patchwork Elephant (often shortened to Elmer) is a children's picture book series by the British author David McKee.Įlmer was first published by Dobson Books in 1968, and re-issued with re-drawn illustrations in a slightly shortened version by Andersen Press in 1989. ![]()
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