"Within Baby Elephant's Trunk and Other Stories there are 8 different fiction stories, all at similar reading levels, and featuring high-frequency sight words."--Worldcat.org.

A large, spotted animal discovers he really belongs in a circus, not a zoo.

Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals.

Illustrations and rhyming text provide a glimpse of a day at the zoo as experienced by the animals that live there.

When Pinky the flamingo slips out to join a zoo tour, the children all notice but the zookeeper fails to see Pinky trying to blend in with seals, meerkats, and pandas.

Fiona the hippo and her friends Cheetah, Chicken, and Fox figure out how to help Mr. Elephant feel better when he has a case of the sniffles.

When he misses his bus to the zoo, Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper who was up late planning a surprise for his friends, gets some unexpected help.

"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.

Xander Panda's plan to host a panda party falls through, since he is the only panda at the zoo, but when he extends the invitation to all of the bears, complications ensue. Includes author's note on the wonders of the animal kingdom and the international effort to save pandas from extinction.

It is raining but Fiona the baby hippo still wants to hang out with her good friends at the zoo, so when Flamingo stops by Hippo Cove for a visit she brings her big umbrella.