When an elephant couple decides it is time to have a child, unexpected challenges arise but, at last, the pair's deepest wish comes true. --Provided by publisher.

Expert mouse dentist Doctor De Soto is called suddenly to Africa to work on the sore tooth of a desperate elephant.

Piggie is determined to thank everyone she knows, but Gerald thinks she will forget someone important.

Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.

Ellie the elephant is the only kid at a party, where the food meant for the grown-ups is out of reach--but she spies a tiny chef in his mouse hole baking a small apple pie that is just the right size for her. Includes a recipe by Alice Waters for a child-size apple pie.

"The traveling Medici Bros. circus is made up of a ragtag group. There's Miss Atlantis, the resident mermaid, who is trying to find her voice. And Rongo, a stongman juggling more duties than he can keep track of. There's also a brokenhearted family in need of some healing: Holt -- a former Stallion Star and war veteran; his daughter, Milly -- a budding scientist with little interest in taking up the family act; and her little brother Joe -- a clumsy...