Books with title Follow the Elephant

A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novelsCommander Vimes is sent to wild, wintry and Transylvania-like Uberwald to establish trade links with the King of the Dwarfs but he ends up trying to stop and inter-species war. On his side though, is a talking dog, a reformed vampyre and a self-made man. You can tell he's self-made because the stitches still show.Vimes may have arrived as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador but he soon finds it's not all golden chocolate balls. Now he's an escaped prisoner - out in the icy woods, wearing only the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya and being chased by a pack of fascist werewolves who don't play by the rules.

When a rich, bored young boy asks to see the Imperial Elephant in old Peking, he's just looking for entertainment. He doesn't expect to be asked to solve an enormous problem: the elephant hasn't slept a wink since the old Emperor died, and nobody dares go near him because of his temper. The venerable animal gently conveys a riddle to the boy, who must summon all his ingenuity to solve it. As he completes the tasks to solve the riddle, he finds that helping another brings unexpected happiness and leads to much-needed sleep for both the elephant and himself. Diana Reynolds Roome's tale, strikingly illustrated by Jude Daly, evokes the vanished elegance of ancient China and will strike a chord in all children with their own special bedtime rituals.

Sam Vines is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation, there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time and already out of breath...