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

Piggie tells Gerald she has a surprise for him, but it is not there yet, so Gerald must be patient.

Babar, King of the Elephants, and his wife Celeste are surprised and delighted when the baby they expect turns out to be triplets.

All the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was a patchwork of brilliant colors until the day he got tired of being different and making the other elephants laugh.

An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief. Pages in back of book contain clues for each illustration to discover who ate the birthday feast.

In three episodes, two friends cool off on a hot day, sing songs, and outsmart some riffraff wildcats.

Babar pays an official visit to Washington, D.C., then travels around the United States, receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University, fishing in Lake Michigan, and touring California with his family.

A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist.