Orem Library

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.

Harry the elephant is helped by his toy friends, Lulu and Ted, to jump from a little grassy hill on a beautiful summer day.

Tumpty the elephant thinks that by closing his eyes to hide, his friends won't be able to see him, but when Tumpty suddenly goes missing, it's not so funny anymore.

Nancy the elephant remembers all kinds of things in all kinds of ways, but now she knows she has forgotten something. But what could it be?

"When an elephant plants himself in the road and refuses to move, the people of Persnickety try all sorts of methods to get him to go--but one thoughtful little girl works up the courage to do what no one else has done: ask him."--

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.

Elephants of many colorful shades are described in couplets that invite the reader to complete the rhyme using color-themed clues.

Monkey and Elephant are very good friends, very good friends who look too nice to just stay at home. So they decide to go gadding. "Gadding?" said Elephant. "What's that?" "Gadding," said Monkey, "is walking along, looking around, finding something fun, stopping awhile, then moving on." Along the way, Monkey and Elephant meet up with some old friends, and three new ones, too. You never know what fun surprises you'll discover when you decide to go...

A boy is excluded from joining his friends' pet club because of his unusual pet.

Gerald is tired and cranky and wants to take a nap, but Piggie is not helping.