Base, Graeme

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

Among the ruins of Angkor Wat, Tiger, Gibbon, Water Buffalo, and Gecko accept Elephant's challenge to race to a certain temple to settle their argument over who would have made the greatest king, and at the end Elephant explains how the competition showed each one's strengths and weaknesses. Includes search-and-find illustrations and a brief history of the "City of Temples.".

An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by elevengames. But the birthday feast disappears. The reader is invited to solve the mystery.

Grandma, who lives with a large collection of animals in her small Australian town, takes a disastrous trip to the seaside.

The inhabitants of a coral reef are threatened when a shady real estate deal started by the greedy Groper floods their area with poisonous waste.