New Releases by David McKee

One day, as Elmer is strolling through the jungle, he hears a cry for help. A butterfly has been trapped in a hole by a fallen branch. Elmer rushes to the rescue and frees her with ease. In return she promises to help Elmer should he ever need it. But just how can a butterfly ever help an elephant?

One morning, Elmer hears an "Oh no!" Looking around, he spots Super El, who''s in need of Elmer''s help. He must get to Aunt Zelda without any of the other animals seeing him and, as usual, it''s up to Elmer to come up with a cunning plan!

Bernard''s parents continually ignore him, even when he tries to warn them about a monster in the garden.

Elmer, the patchwork elephant, has been a favorite of children around the world since the first book debuted in 1989.Elmer is sad when he discovers that the rainbow has lost its colors. He wants to help, but what will happen if he gives the

When hippopotamuses come to live at the elephants'' river, Elmer finds out why they have come and enlists his friends to help them make things better.

Ages 0 and over.

This funny and exciting Elmer adventure is sure to please children over and over again. Elmer is playing hide and seek with Bird, but it''s not as easy as it looks. Children will have great fun playing along with everyone''s favourite patchwork elephant in this inventive hole-in-the-page adventure.

Prince Peter''s snooty parents want to buy him a nice present for his birthday. A nice throne perhaps? Or maybe a new crown? Surely he''ll want a silver sword? But all Prince Peter wants is a teddy bear - a nice fluffy, cuddly teddy bear. The King and Queen eventually give in and Prince Peter gets his teddy bear - made of solid gold! Who wants to cuddle a cold, hard golden teddy? But when the teddy starts crying, Prince Peter realises that a LITTLE hug can sometimes make all the difference. . .

Elmer the patchwork elephant has been a nursery favourite since the first book was published in 1989. Now a modern classic, Elmer is known to millions. Elmer books have been described as ''a tonic to read'' (Child Education) and ''a treat not to be missed.'' (WHS Showcase).

Elmer, the patchwork elephant, thinks of a clever way to outwit the hunters who are tracking himself and his friends.

Ages 0 and over.

Elmer loves all different types of weather, but which one is his favorite?

Elmar, der karierte Elefant, lässt sich etwas einfallen, um seine Freunde vor den Elefantenjägern zu retten ...

It has proved useful to view memory in terms of distinct biological systems falling into two broad categories: declarative (or conscious or explicit) memory and nondeclarative (or nonconscious or implicit) memory. This present findings concern some important aspects of declarative and nondeclarative memory. Experiment 1 was a study of forgetting from declarative memory in diencephalic and medial temporal lobe amnesic patients. Subjects studied 120 pictures (controls: 1 s/item; amnesics: 8 s/item), and then took four tests of recognition memory after 10-min, 2-hr, and 30-32 hr delays. Contrary to early reports, the forgetting rate was not faster in medial temporal lobe than diencephalic amnesia. Also, amnesic patients did not perform better when identifying new items instead of old items. The next three experiments were based on a visual paired comparison task. Subjects saw 24 consecutive pairs of pictures, two identical items/pair, and later saw another 24 pairs of pictures, a previously studied and a novel item in each pair. Viewing times for new and old items (measured by a highly reliable method) indicated that novelty preference occurred in normal subjects, that it lasted only a few hours, and that it was impaired in amnesia (i.e., that task performance in humans relies on declarative memory). Finally, a fame judgment task was used to study aspects of nondeclarative memory. Subjects pronounced names of famous and nonfamous people and then judged the fame of some of those names, together with new names. For normal subjects, a ''famous'' decision was more likely for old names than new names. Equivalent gains occurred for famous and nonfamous names. The effect for nonfamous names was undisrupted by recombining the first and last names between study and test. Most importantly, the fame judgment effect was completely intact in amnesia. The results suggest that the effect (1) involves nondeclarative memory, (2) occurs for information without a preexisting representation, and (3) does not require a new association to be formed between first and last names at study. A context is described for applying all of the present findings to some issues concerning the neurobiology of memory.

One eccentric Admiral in the village was enough, but when another comes to stay the villagers find that their boastfulness and silly, competitive behaviour is disruptive. Then the innkeeper offered a prize to the admiral who could keep the peace longer than the other.

While the camel sleeps, the jungle animals build a sand castle on his back which he always washes off in the ocean until the day the tide goes out and out and out.

Six men looking for a place where they might live and work in peace start a series of events which result in a devastating battle.