Most Popular Books by David Mckee

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. . .

Rose and the pink elephants are celebrating Old''s one-hundredth birthday. The celebrations take an unexpected turn when Old becomes stranded on a dangerous cliff top. Rose rushes to get help. It sounds like a job for Super El!

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.

The pink elephant herd, along with Elmer''s friend Rose, are celebrating Old''s one-hundredth birthday. But the celebrations take an unexpected turn when Old becomes stranded on a dangerous cliff top. Rose rushes to Elmer -- maybe he knows a certain Super El who can come to the rescue?

When Elmer the patchwork elephant and his cousin Wilbur decide to go whale-watching, as their grandfather Eldo did at their age, their journey becomes far more of an adventure than they anticipated

This is the story of Bernard, whose parents are too busy to understand that there is a monster in the garden... and one that wants to eat him!

Return to Oz with Tip and his strange new friends as they embark on a magical adventure to find old friends, defeat General Jinjur and reclaim the Emerald Kingdom. Tip is sick of being bossed around by his guardian, Mombi. So, when she threatens to turn him to stone for using magic to bring Jack Pumpkinhead to life as a prank, he and Jack run away to the Emerald City. But by the time they arrive, the city has been taken over by General Jinjur and her all-girl Army of Revolution! So begins a remarkable adventure which sees old friends, like the Tin Woodman and Glinda the Good, and new, like the Gump, a flying creature built of sofas and palm leaves, work together to set the Land of Oz to rights. A gorgeous new edition of this fantastic sequel to the much-loved classic, The Wizard of Oz.

When Rose meets Elmer she''s humming a tune, a tune she just can''t get out of her head. When she leaves, Elmer realizes he can''t get the tune out of head either—and as he crosses the jungle he can see the infectious tune spreading to every animal Rose has met! Can Elmer help everyone get rid of it?

Stori am rannu a rhoi. Mae Elfed yn drist ar ôl gweld bod yr enfys wedi colli ei lliwiau. Hoffai helpu ond beth fydd yn digwydd iddo os bydd yn rhoi ei liwiau ei hun i''r enfys? A fydd yn eu colli am byth? Addasiad Cymraeg o ''Elmer and the Rainbow''. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Traditional Chinese edition of Elmer Again

Ages 0 and over.

There once was a large country that was ruled by a General. The General would take his army and attack all the countries around him until they were conquered. Eventually, there was only one small country left to conquer. However, this one did not resist but welcomed the soldiers - leading to a quite unexpected result!

Every page of this colorful keepsake invites you to record the special moments in baby''s first two years. A book to treasure forever, it is beautifully bound with luxurious padded covers. Elmer''s Baby Record Book is the perfect way to record all the milestones in a baby''s first two years: from first smile to first step and beyond. There''s plenty of room to note all the important details as well as to mount precious photos, and Elmer''s antics and sunny personality brighten each and every page. In years to come, children will love to read about all the special things that make them unique—just like Elmer, their favorite patchwork elephant!

Children can learn each of Elmer''s colours when they join him in this playful game of hide-and-seek. His friend, Bird, is hiding. A flap on each page conceals another one of Elmer''s friends.

Denver es rico, muy rico. Todos en el pueblo lo quieren por su amabilidad y su generosidad. Pero un día llega un forastero y siembra el descontento entre la gente del pueblo, diciendo que no es justo que Denver tenga más dinero que ellos. Cuando Denver escucha lo que sucedió, divide su dinero en partes iguales entre todos. Se muda a una nueva aldea, donde vive feliz y es mejor apreciado, pero para los viejos aldeanos la vida no es lo mismo sin él.

With its sturdy shaped board pages for little fingers, this Christmas gift is the perfect introduction for babies to the world of Elmer. It''s two days before Christmas Eve, the night Papa Red visits, and the young elephants are very excited. This year Elmer has a special treat in store for the young elephants, if they can keep quiet and out of sight... Full of colour, wisdom and pathos, this classic Christmas tale has been abridged for the very youngest readers in this tactile shaped board book edition.

Aided and abetted by his ventriloquist cousin, Wilbur, Elmer pretends to be blown away on the windiest day. They make fools of the other elephants, but when the laughter dies down, Elmer reassures them that a heavy elephant is safe in the worst of gales. When he tries to prove it, much to his surprise, he really does get blown away!

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.

The hunters are coming and all the elephants are worried. Elmer comes up with a plan to outwit the hunters but things don''t turn out quite a planned.

When Elmer and the other elephants search for Wilbur, they have trouble finding him because he is a ventriloquist and they keep looking in the wrong places.

Elmer the elephant and his friends Lion and Tiger help a kangaroo who thinks he can''t jump.

Elmer''s animal friends illustrate several antonyms, such as big/small, hot/cold, and fat/thin.

Elmer the patchwork elephant helps children learn the different colors.