New Releases by David McKee

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.

Elmer, the patchwork elephant, has been a favorite of children around the world since the first book debuted in 1989. Join Elmer and his friend Rose in a new story about what it really means to be unique. Grandpa Eldo asks Elmer and his cousin Wilbur to help a young elephant find her way back to her herd—and they get a shock when they see she is pink! No wonder she is called Rose. As they help Rose find her herd, Elmer and Wilbur learn a valuable lesson about being different and fitting in.

It''s two days before the annual visit of Papa Red and the young elephants are very excited. They choose a tree to decorate and prepare the presents for Papa Red to collect during the night to take to those who need them. But this year Elmer has a special treat in store for the young elephants, if they can keep quiet and out of sight.

Once a year on Elmer''s Day, all the elephants decorate themselves and have a parade, and this year Elmer comes up with a plan to include the other animals as well as the elephants.

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!

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.

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

Elmer and his friends count from one to ten. On board pages.

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

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!

In this delightful adventure of Elmer the patchwork elephant, find out how Elmer shows his friends that hot and cold are only relative -- and both can be fun!

CENTERElmer to the Rescue!/center Baby Elephant has lost his teddy, and Elmer is determined to find it.Is the lost teddy with Giraffe? With Monkey? With Hippo? It''s getting late. Will Elmer find the lost bear in time for bed? Young children will love the gentle suspense and thoroughly happy ending of this cheerful bedtime mystery! When Baby Elephant loses his teddy bear, it''s Elmer to the rescue. Is the lost bear with Lion? With Tiger? With Crocodile? It''s getting late. Will Elmer find the lost bear in time for bed? Young children will love the gentle suspense and will rejoice in the thoroughly happy ending of Elmer and the Lost Teddy.

Elmer has a new friend - but it''s not crocodile, nor the monkeys. How can it be? Grandpa Eldo says his new friend is getting taller all the time, and likes creeping on their tummy, but they can''t fly. Do you know who it is yet? See the reflection on the last page and find out!

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.

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

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. . .

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.

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!

Meet Elmer -- every child''s favorite patchwork elephant!

Elmer has lost his cousin, Wilbur, in the jungle, so he and his friends go on the hunt for the black and white checked elephant. The trouble is, Wilbur is a ventriloquist and very skilled at throwing his voice but it leads them to lots of different places and animals, but not Wilbur. Now where could he be. . . ?

SUMMARY: A day in the life of Elmer - every child''s favourite patchwork elephant.

Elmer the patchwork elephant helps children learn the different colors.

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.