The Elephant Girl By James Patterson and Ellen Banda-Aaku In 2022, The Elephant Girl was nominated for The Best Middle School and Children’s Book of the Year by Goodreads. Inspired by true ...

Babar the elephant, who has appeared in dozens of children's books dating back to the 1930s, has been a toy, a movie character in films like Babar: The Movie and Babar: King of the Elephants and more.

Popular expressions in the English language tend to have deeper meanings. Here are three, including "elephant in the room" and "go cold turkey," that have fun and interesting origin stories.

As a young man I worked at many conventional farms, harvesting berries, beans, carrots, flowers and hay. From 1970 to 1976, I also worked at a more unconventional farm.