I always wanted to work in the circus," said Oliver. "I could be a dancing elephant." But the circus already has ten elephants and they don't need another one. So, Oliver must find somewhere else to go.

A lost albatross has trouble finding someone who can direct him to the ocean.

A circus gorilla scares away the people who have come to see him, and when he tries to find them, he gets lost himself.

Although no one else could see it, Harry was very pleased to have a horse in his room.

Though he is used to the city streets, Barney's horse becomes frightened of the noisy new overhead trains.

When an old lighthouse keeper and his wife leave their seaside home, they find a way for their old friends, the seagulls, to find them.

A cat makes friends with a soldier and learns about military life when he joins the army ; Controlled vocabulary.

To see life out of the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home, in a story with material on the origins of books in the I Can Read series.