Elmer the patchwork elephant helps the excited youngsters prepare for the Christmas visit of Papa Red.

"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"--

Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive. As Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.

Mr and Mrs Homeowner have a mouse in their house, and they want it gone. Mr Bosh - big chief mouse-catcher, and Mr Bumble - assistant mouse-catcher (wearing shoes that squeak like a mouse) arrive on the scene. They try all the old tricks: setting a trap, bringing in a (big!) cat, inviting an elephant round... but the mouse is always one step ahead.

A heartwarming story with a message as big as an elephant, this is a fanciful tale of friendship between an eccentric lady and her beloved pet elephant. When Mrs Bibi is told her pet elephant has to go, she reluctantly packs her bags and heads off somewhere where they can live together in happiness. But what they both leave behind is far bigger than the other people in the town could have ever imagined.

"The young elephants want to race to prove who is the fastest, but sometimes winning isn't about coming first!"--

My elephant is funny, big and a little clumsy, and he's never too busy to play with me. "Mi elefante es divertido, grande y un poco torpe, pero nunca está demasiado ocupado para jugar conmigo"--p. [4] of cover.

Pom, Flora, Alexander, and Arthur go to Babar's studio and learn about mixing and using colors.

When hippopotamuses come to live at the elephants' river, Elmer finds out why they have come and enlists his friends to help them make things better.

While out for a walk, Mama Elephant answers her child's questions about a monkey, a frog, a songbird, a butterfly, and a crocodile, all the while teaching about Little Elephant too.