The Elephant Play

Elephant friends Olive and Oscar must share the spotlight in this second adorable book in the Level 1 Ready-to-Read series by bestselling duo Ariel Bernstein and Marc Rosenthal. Olive wants to put on a play all by herself, but she is worried no one will like it. She asks Oscar to sit in the audience. She tells him when to laugh and cry. He is so good at acting! Will he steal the show?

Ariel Bernstein is the author of I Have a Balloon and Where Is My Balloon?, both illustrated by Scott Magoon, as well as We Love Fishing! and You Go First, both illustrated by Marc Rosenthal. I Have a Balloon received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, and it was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Where Is My Balloon? was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, and We Love Fishing! received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. You Go First was a Junior Library Guild Selection, named a Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Title, and received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Ariel lives in New Jersey with her family. Learn more at ArielBernsteinBooks.com.