‘The Magician’s Elephant’ takes young viewers on a hopeful adventure

During the summer at a movie night with my 6-year-old nephew and 5-year-old niece we watched “The Magician’s Elephant” on Netflix. The animated fantasy follows Peter, an orphan, who lives with an old retired sergeant in the small sleepy town of Baltese in the aftermath of a war. While running errands one day the boy meets a fortune teller at...