Elephants Ed and Kip play with a rolling rock.

Suggesting to a confused Elephant that they spend their unscheduled day gadding about, Monkey explains that they will walk and look around while making brief stops whenever they encounter something interesting or run into other friends.

A boy provides instructions as he searches high and low for an elephant, which the reader can find in the illustrations.

Neelie reluctantly returns to her life back in the States with her ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, an ex-house, and an ex-horse, and with the help of her new friend, Diamond-Rose, tries to raise funds to save an elephant targeted for execution in Zimbabwe.

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.

All the elephant's friends give him advice, but none can solve his problem until the opossum announces friends are to help, not just to give advice.

When his Aunt Zelda cannot remember where she put his gift from Grandpa Eldo, Elmer helps her solve the mystery of the forgotten gift with love, patience and respect, in this heartwarming depiction of family life with elderly relatives.

"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"--

Eldon, a young elephant, accompanies and supports his grandmother, Big Ella, as she copes with memory loss.

"There is pandemonium in the jungle. A strange roaring sounds sends the animals stampeding, convinced it's a monster. But all is not as it seems. Only Elmer the patchwork elephant is brave enough to investigate, and what he discovers comes as quite a surprise"--