On Erica’s tenth birthday, she wakes up to find an elephant on her doorstep. Erica lives in a small terraced house with her uncle Jeff. Jeff is in India, so she invites the elephant in and the elephant stays in Jeff’s room. Being a resourceful girl, Erica checks to see how much (and what) food elephants eat. When she discovers they eat 150Kg of cabbage a day, she thinks of a plan to raise enough money to feed the elephant. After she realises the elephant has a poorly leg she asks the zoo for help and this is when her problems start (if having an elephant in your house is not a problem in itself!)
Eventually Erica overcomes all these problems and the story ends on both a happy and sad note.
I enjoyed this book very much because I like elephants, Erica is a girl about my age who shows true GRIT and determination and it made me laugh out loud. Although it doesn’t end how I wanted it to, it ended with an important message about love.