Follow Fingers McGraw, a mouse, as he scurries away with a stolen piece of cheese, and ace lawman Detective Jumbo Wayne Jr., an elephant, tries to catch him.

Elliot the little elephant is terrified when his friend Mouse introduces him to the carnival, but Mouse helps him to have fun.

Quiet Giraffe and chatty Elephant have a friendship that sees them through misunderstanding, disappointment, and an interesting surprise.

"Piggie really likes slop. She likes it so much, she wants Gerald to try some! But can Gerald find the courage to do it? Or will the smell alone be too much to handle?"--

When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.

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.

An elephant finds a "thingamabob" and experiments until he discovers what to do with it.

Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.

An elephant and a bear take over a diner and find out about responsibility and food language.

Hare, tired of being picked on by Elephant and Hippopotamus, tricks both of them in a game of tug-of-war.