Del Norte Public Library

All Mrs. Large wants is five minutes' peace from her energetic children, but Laura and her brothers have other ideas!

Presents an introduction to elephants, describing their different types, habitat, herd behavior, how they communicate using sound, touch, and bodily movement, and the dangers they face from illegal poaching.

Elmer is on his way to visit his Grandpa Eldo. He has great fun reminding Eldo of all the things they used to do together, but is Eldo quite as forgetful as Elmer thinks? He may be old but he is an elephant, after all, and elephants never forget. Do they?

Presents facts about the behaviors, habitats, diet, physical characteristics and abilities, socialization, and other aspects of African elephants.

"Piggie is determined to thank everyone she knows, but Gerald thinks she will forget someone important"--

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.

Elephant finds a book and then sneezes, mixing up all the letters.

Piggie ruins a perfectly good day by telling Gerald the elephant that she is going, sending him into a panic.

When Chico the monkey wakes up to a loud clatter, he puts on his tool belt and searches his tree house to find what is making the noise, only to discover Clark the elephant stuck in the laundry chute.

None of the other animals can sleep because Elephant has the hiccups.