Orem Library

Ruby is a young elephant who loves playing in mud, floppy-running, and spending time with her best friends, Ivan the silverback gorilla and Bob the mutt. She loves her herd at the sanctuary, too, but she also misses the elephants of her past--the family she was born into on the African savanna and Aunt Stella at the mall circus. Ruby remembers her life before the sanctuary, before the circus, before she knew what loss meant. When she shares her story...

Gerald must decide if he should share his ice cream before it's too late.

Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.

Magnolia the goose longs to be a mother and finally gets her wish in a most unusual way after a circus leaves town.

On a very, very windy day, Elmer, the patchwork elephant, assures all the other animals and birds that nothing could ever blow him away.

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

Mildred is very lonely until she finds a stray animal and takes him home as her pet dog, but Peanut is very different from the other dogs in the park.

Chronicles a succession of animals who are in need of help; when each succeeding animal refuses to help, he then becomes in need of help.

Gerald the elephant tries to tell Piggie that ball-throwing is serious business, but Piggie just wants to have fun.

When Pickles the elephant turns his life upside-down, Pete the pig comes to realize that a perfectly predictable, practical, and uncomplicated life is not always preferable.