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.

Gabriel the elephant reminisces on his younger days and his dreams of being a member of a brave lifeboat crew.

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

Tacky the exuberant penguin accidentally goes sailboarding and winds up on a tropical island, where he meets an elephant who demands proof of Tacky's identity.

In this novel-in-verse that picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob, Ruby recounts her life before the circus when her caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa comes for a visit.

The false leader Stinger has died, but the animals of the Bravelands still find no peace. No Great Parent has taken on the leadership, and the imbalance threatens all. Thorn struggles with a burden, Sky longs for the Great Spirit, and Fearless blames himself when an ally is put into grave danger.

"A new Great Father now rules over the animals of Bravelands, but he is not what he seems, and unless the elephant Sky, the baboon Thorn, and the lion Fearless can fight his lies and unite the animals of the plains, the balance of Bravelands may be destroyed forever"-- Provided by publisher.

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.