All the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was a patchwork of brilliant colors until the day he got tired of being different and making the other elephants laugh.

In this counting rhyme, an affectionate elephant family plays together.

Elephants Ed and Kip play with a rolling rock.

An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief.

When Monkey and Elephant volunteer to babysit three monkey babies for the afternoon, the two friends don't quite know what to expect from this new experience.

"Elena wants to ride her bike. She steadies, she readies. She wobbles, she bobbles... KA-BANG! Learning to ride a bike is hard. But Elena can do it. She just has to try, try again"--

"An elephant has being playing with his toys and putting all of them away in the wrong place. Soon his mother notices that something is not quite right with her little one's trunk"--

Henrietta the elephant's serene life is disrupted when a baby goose comes to stay, but after Goose finally leaves, Henrietta no longer enjoys the quiet.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text follow Pat, a fish, as he is caught by a shark, rescued by his friend Mike the elephant, and called on to return the favor.

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.