You Can't Take An Elephant On the Bus

By Patricia Cleveland-Peck and David Tazzyman

Now celebrating 10 years of sensational silliness, this timeless bestseller is full of crazy, clever and chaotic fun. Follow an ensemble of animals as they attempt to ride all sorts of thoroughly unsuitable vehicles in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind rhyming text.


You can't take an elephant on the bus ...
It would simply cause a terrible fuss!

Elephants' bottoms are heavy and fat
and would certainly squash the seats quite flat.

Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don't even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike ... This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the most unsuitable vehicles. A real romp of a book, with hilarious rhyming text and spectacular illustrations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Aug 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781408849811

Patricia Cleveland-Peck

Patricia Cleveland-Peck has published fourteen children's books including The String Family, Much Too Much, The Bus From Beyond and Shepherd Boy. She has also written adult books, plays and visited many countries as a travel journalist. Patricia lives on a smallholding in rural Sussex with lots of animals and a big untidy garden.

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