The book series, starring best friends, Gerald the elephant and Piggie the pig was first published in 2007. Since then the books have become wildly popular among the kindergarten and first grade ...

Hachette Children’s has landed a new picture book from Giles Andreae and illustrator Guy Parker-Rees to mark 20 years of Giraffes Can’t Dance.

A similar capacity for reimagining animates THE BOY AND THE ELEPHANT (Random House Studio, 38 pp., $19.99, ages 4 to 8), a wordless picture book by the Australian illustrator Freya Blackwood.

Babar the elephant, who has appeared in dozens of children's books dating back to the 1930s, has been a toy, a movie character in films like Babar: The Movie and Babar: King of the Elephants and more.