The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars
by Jean Merrill & Ronni Solbert
The title of this 1964 picture book (just brought back into print by—of course—NYRB Classics) may be the greatest in the history of publishing—how could you not want to read about its hero’s oddly specific compulsion?—and the story inside is just as straightforward and action-filled as you could hope. Merrill was best known for The …