No. 21584 Elephantasy by Sheehan
His works include:
Dorchester Streets: The Story of the Sheehan Family in Dorchester, 1921-1943. (1999)
A Dorchester Marines WWII. A Sequel to Dorchester Streets. (2002.)
An Elephantasy. The Legend of Lawson’s Elephants. (2006?)
The following is from Boston College
Robert Louis Sheehan (Romance Languages) has written a children’s book titled An Elephantasy. The Legend of Lawson’s Elephants. From the book cover: Professor Sheehan and his late wife, Jela, a Harvard librarian, traveled to many parts of the world, but their hearts always returned to their little cottage in Scituate where they spent 37 happy summers. In riding or walking around Scituate, they would often pause at Scituate Commons to watch children at play in the pool surrounding the fountain with the three elephants. It was there that Professor Sheehan conceived the idea of bringing life to the elephants through a children’s story. He wanted to do for the elephants what Robert McCloskey had done for the ducklings in the Boston Public Garden: immortalize them. First he did research on the life of Thomas W. Lawson in the Scituate Historical Society and then, blending fact with fancy, ultimately brought forth this “elephantasy”.