Elmer books

Once a year on Elmer's Day, all the elephants decorate themselves and have a parade, and this year Elmer comes up with a plan to include the other animals as well as the elephants.

Elmer decides to investigate after the hippos' river dries up and they are forced to move into the elephants' river, but when he learns the problem can be fixed if both groups work together, he must encourage the elephants and hippos to put aside prejudices.

It's Christmas, and the elephants are very excited for Papa Red's annual visit! All the presents are ready, but Elmer has a treat in store for the young elephants-if they can keep quiet and out of sight…

When Elmer realizes that the birds are being frightened by the big bully bird, he comes up with an ingenious solution which will rid them of the nasty bully for good!

Rose and the pink elephants are celebrating Old's one-hundredth birthday. The celebrations take an unexpected turn when Old becomes stranded on a dangerous cliff top. Rose rushes to get help―a job for Super El!

There is pandemonium in the jungle! A strange roaring sounds sends the animals stampeding, convinced it's a monster. But all is not as it seems. Only Elmer is brave enough to investigate, and what he discovers comes as quite a surprise!

After days of being in a cave with the rest of his herd due to torrential rains, Elmer the patchwork elephant is ready for some time alone, but first he must get help to rescue Young Elephant from an island formed by flood waters.

The young elephants want to prove who is the fastest, so Elmer and Wilbur organise a race. Each decorated a different colour, the racers set off around the course and discover things about themselves - Blue may be first and Orange second, but White is kind, Pink and Violet are funny and Yellow is a cheat. Luckily Yellow also learns he is very good at saying sorry, so each young elephant gets a medal from Elmer.

Humming to himself as he strolls through the jungle, Elmer manages to get the tune stuck in the head of every animal he encounters.

The elephants decide it's their turn to play a trick on Elmer: all of the animals must pretend to forget his birthday tomorrow! But when the day comes the trick doesn't quite go according to plan. The elephants should have listened to Elmer's friends... A new tale to celebrate Elmer the Patchwork Elephant's 30th birthday from master-storyteller David McKee, this is the twenty-seventh Elmer storybook!

"Every animal in the jungle as a favorite bedtime story, but which one will Elmer tell the baby elephants tonight?" --book jacket