An orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old lady who gives him everything he wants, but eventually returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants.

An elephant's dancing skills and good manners surprise everyone at the royal ball, including the queen.

All the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was a patchwork of brilliant colors, until one day he gets tired of being different and finds a way to blend into the herd.

Long ago when elephants had no trunks, a young elephant who was full of "satiable curtiosity" asked the crocodile what he had for dinner. His alarming discovery explains why all elephants now have long trunks.

Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.

"Intensely moving. [An] exceptional novel." -Boston Globe A poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson is the tale of two baby elephants and the young man who accidentally finds himself their guardian. Every reader who was enchanted by Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants or enthralled by When Elephants Weep will adore Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper-a masterful blending of historical...

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