Elmer - David McKee Reviews

Elmer is a lovely children's story with the underlying message that it's ok for everyone to be different! The story focuses on Elmer the elephant. He isn't like the other elephants in his herd. They are all grey - whereas he is patchwork and lots and lots of different colours! Although Elmer keeps all the other elephants happy with his ...  Read the complete review

Elmer seems to be a new friend in our house. Elmer is fun. Elmer has sparked so many funny conversations. Elmer is gre(y)t. Elmer is an elephant. He lives with his herd; elephants of all shapes and sizes but with one thing in common - they are all grey. All except Elmer, that is. Elmer is a patchwork elephant and he's all the ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

***The Author*** David McKee is well known amongst parents because of the Elmer series, but a few of you probably aren't aware that he also created Mr Benn and King Rollo. I may have lost some of the younger readers of this now, but if so, just mention them to your parents and I'm sure they will explain how big they were in the ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Elmer by David McKee I read Elmer to the children at school today a wonderful character, so I just had to tell you how much I like Elmer. Elmer is a patchwork elephant. In the book I read today Elmer was fed up with being different to the other elephants, Elmer is a brightly coloured patchwork Elephant all the other elephants are ...  Read the complete review

Pre baby in belly, I had little motivation to discover 'new' children's fiction, as you would imagine: I was quite happy with my own childhood memories of Mr Men and Beatrix Potter, thank you: Then those hormones start kicking in; one starts oohing and aahing over under-sized Adidas trainers and sickly sweet teddy bears with pinched up ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

We LOVE Elmer in our household. TO the extend of us having decorated one room in Elmer stickers and colours. Elmer himself is a patchwork coloured Elephant and he lives in the jungle with all his normal grey coloured elephant friends. The books follows Elmer in his everyday life in the jungle. My favourite is absolutely Elmer, the first ...  Read the complete review

i remember reading this book when i was young. I loved it so much. i still have books in my bedroom and i am now 14. Its so cute and funny. for little children this book is like a dream come true. it is such a good read and is really enjoyable. So if you are thinking about buying your child a book, buy an elmer book. you wont regret it. ...  Read the complete review

This a lovely simple book from David Mckee.Its about a patchwork elephant called Elmer,and he explores the world of colour-but Elmer has them all! It is simple to read and the pictures are bright and colourful as Elmer compares colours to objects,which I find helpful as my daughter is learning her colours now.The colours are not just primary ...  Read the complete review

This is the first of a series of books about Elmer the patchwork elephant who is the joker of the herd and always making the other elephants laugh. In this book Elmer decides he's fed up being different and feels the elephants are laughing at him because of his colour. He creeps out at dawn and disguises himself with berry juice so that he ...  Read the complete review