A young elephant and his father spend Saturday running errands, sipping lemonade, and having a cookout.

Ella the elephant wants to help in her mother's bakery, but will the job she takes on prove to be more than she can handle?

Ella is nervous about the first day of school in her new town, but wearing her grandmother's good luck hat makes her feel better--until the other students tease her and call her names.

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...

Eddie Elephant loves to tell stories, which keeps him from getting bored when he is asked to help egg-sit for his neighbors, Elmer and Ernestine Emu.

"A little girl goes on a long journey to deliver an elephant to her great aunt"--

When Ella the elephant goes to the carnival and loses her lucky hat in a storm, she learns a valuable lesson about the real meaning of luck.

Best friends Petal, the tuba-playing elephant, and Poppy, the adventurous rhinoceros, have very different reactions when they discover a penguin in their garden one stormy day.

On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.

Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.