Kids into books - Elephants Don't Sit On Cars

This week's title: Elephants Don't Sit On Cars

Author: David Henry Wilson

Publisher: Macmillan, $12.95

Illustrator: Axet Scheffler

Age group: 7-9 years

And the elephant was still sitting on Daddy's car.

'Mummy,' said Jeremy James, for the latest development couldn't be ignored. 'Mummy, the elephant has just done its Number Two all over Daddy's car.'

But Mummy's face merely twitched like a fly-flicking elephant's ear, and she said nothing.

'Gosh, and what a Number Two! Mummy, you should see the elephant's Number Two! Mummy, why do elephants do such big Number Twos? I can't do a Number Two like that! Mine isn't even a thousandth as big as that! What a Number Two!'

'Jeremy James, if you go on talking like that, I shall send you straight to bed. Now play with your train set and let's have no more elephant talk and certainly no more about Number Twos. Do you hear?'

'Yes, Mummy.'

No Number Twos. Anyone would think that Number Twos were unhealthy. Only look what happened when you didn't do a Number Tow. Then it was: 'Jeremy James, have you done your Number Two?