New York: Random House, (1983). Hardcover - "Babar's ABC is the very nicest kind of teacher to have around the home. Use it first with very young children for simple object recognition; later for letter and word identification; and finally... For that satisfying first step into reading complete sentences." Illustrated in color. Large format. ISBN: 0-394859200.

New York: Atheneum, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book for young readers, one which uses the friendship between a boy, grieving over the death of his mother, and an elephant to explore the boundaries between joy and sorrow. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate on the half title page. Frontispiece and dust jacket art by Maurice Sendak. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-689830297.

New York: Hyperion, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel - A young boy and a Masai join forces in Kenya as Jake tries to find his father who is researching the elephants there, and the Masai is trying to end the drought - and together they succeed in stopping the poachers who are killing elephants for their tusks. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page. 250 pp.