Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.

To work off a family debt, ten-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.

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

Caught in a storm, Elephant washes up on a tiny island. Along comes Mouse in a little dingy and Elephant steps aboard . . . uh-oh! They use the wreckage to make the island bigger. And here's Dog--can this boat take Elephant's weight? Uh-oh! None of the animals can save the shipwrecked Elephant but each broken vessel provides new materials for another intricate construction. Wheels and pulleys create a Ferris wheel, an elevator, a waffle maker. Soon...

"After an act of betrayal rocks the Bravelands, baboon Thorn must find a way to confront treachery in his own troop, while elephant Sky searches for answers and lion Fearless contends with the usurper who conquered his father's pride"--

When the jungle animals are hot, a baby elephant has a good solution involving the squirting and splashing of water at the water hole.

Elmer, the patchwork elephant, plays an amusing trick on his grey elephant friends.

In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.

Kate's fantastic grandmother, who always guesses correctly what Kate has drawn, leaves Kate a special gift before moving away.

A baby elephant describes his life with the rest of the herd, and how his mother teaches him and protects him from harm. On board pages.