Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.

What to do when Grandpa and Grandma are too busy to play? Ask the elephant, of course! he's loads of fun, even if he squashes the flower bed and breaks a few things around the house. Grandpa and Grandma will understand-- really. In an intergenerational story that is both funny and sweet, Petr Horáček illuminates the power of one boy's boundless imagination -- and how truly infectious it can be!

Story based on the 1914 newspaper headlines about the children of Boston raising more than $6,000 to buy the first elephants for the Franklin Park Zoo.

Ollie the purple elephant is delighted to move into the McLaughlin family's New York City apartment but their cat, Ginger, is not pleased and devises a plan to send Ollie away with the circus.

When an elephant falls asleep in a farmer's barn, six blind mice try to describe what an elephant is based on the part of the elephant each mouse explores.

"All the animals want to play hide-and-seek, but oh, no! Elephant isn't very good at that. He's too easy to find. What about leap-frog? He's not good at that, either. What about hopscotch, or skipping, or tag? No, no and no. Poor elephant isn't very good at many games, and the animals are starting to get frustrated with him. Luckily there is one game Elephant loves to play, and the animals oblige him, though they may have to say "oh, no!" themselves...

Paul has no one to play with. The sandpit is empty. Or is it? As he digs and pats the sand, a shape appears: an elephant. Curling up under the elephant's warm, sandy trunk, Paul drifts off to sleep. But then something amazing happens. The sand elephant stands up, and lifts Paul onto its back! The sand elephant takes Paul to a wonderful land where incredible sand animals and their children are laughing and playing together. But what will happen when...

A gloomy elephant that wants to be left alone in the shadows ignores other animals' efforts to cheer him, until a mouse asks to rest near him and shares her story of loss. This is a subtle story about an elephant who is feeling sorrowful, and nothing seems to interest him or lift his spirits. Illustrated with a striking contrast between shadow and light, the moody blue elephant appears to live in a different world from his colorful savanna friends....

An orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old lady who gives him everything he wants, but he eventually returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants.

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.