Elmer - David McKee

Elmer - David McKee: Even A Little Smile (1287 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 21.02.01 (Very useful, 139 readings)
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Aww. We’ve gone back to Elmer. I thought we’d left him behind. In fact I nearly gave him away just the other day. I had to think quickly. HAD I given poor Elmer away? Luckily I remembered that I hadn’t. I’d put him on the top shelf just in case. Phew. Can you imagine? “What shall we read tonight?” “Let’s read Elmer Mummy, we haven’t read Elmer since a long time, have we? I think I was only four.” “Sorry, Elmer is no more, Mummy gave him to Marnie, or was it Oxfam?” Phew again. What a relief – those book hoarding instincts aren’t such a ...

Stand Out From The Crowd! (608 words)
by tb4ms - written on 29.12.06 (Very useful, 493 readings)
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David McKee has been an author and illustrator for many years but his most famous creation has been 'Elmer, the Patchwork Elephant' and the accompanying series of books. This is a bright and cheerful book with a lovely moral to the story......'it's ok to be different and it's good to make others happy and laugh'. ~The story~ Elmer was an elephant with a difference, he was a multi-coloured elephant, not elephant-colour! Elmer kept all of the herd happy with his jokes and fooling around, but one night he couldn't sleep because he was tired of being so different and wanted to be like the others. The next day he left ...

Elmer - David McKee: The Patchwork elephant... (1348 words)
by juicy_lucy - written on 24.01.06 (Very useful, 1145 readings)
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An enduring favourite, a classic! Elmer was first published in 1989 and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide I remember coming across this book about 16 years ago, and reading it to a class of Key Stage 1 children (Infants in those days). What struck me at the time was how different to many of the picture books available then; it was bright and cheerful and emphasized an important message. I still read it now to children in Key Stage 1 and 2 and have read it to my own three children. Somehow, it has never appeared old fashioned or dated, which can so often happen with either a storyline or the illustrations. **THE STORY** The ...