A hilarious romp of an animal adventure that is sure to have your children in fits of giggles. The third in a series - all equally as laugh out loud. Highly recommend.

I just reviewed You Can't Call an Elephant in an Emergency by Patricia Cleveland-Peck & David Tazzyman. Thanks Netgalley and Bloomsbury for the electronic review copy. #YouCantCallanElephantinanEmergency #NetGalley

A fun and silly read aloud text that had illustrations that positively leap off the page. I think the text and illustrations would appeal enormously to young children and it would also suit a group of children who were learning about different emergency services.

I loved You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus, so jumped at the chance to read this follow-up story.

The rhyming structure didn't seem to be as neat, so I had to reread the pages a couple of times to get into the flow of the rhyming properly which was not a problem I had with the first book (but then reading this one on the laptop screen and having my daughter squealing excitedly and trying to shove it off of my lap was something to contend with!).

The illustrations are still charming - a very unique style that you don't often see in picture books - and the range of animals featured is very fun, because there will be at least one favourite for every child who reads it.

You Can’t Call an Elephant in an Emergency by Patricia Cleveland-Peck and David Tazzyman is a colourful and engaging book. Full of rhymes and beautiful pictures. My niece loved it.

Another great book from Patricia Cleveland-Peck and David Tazzyman. This time it's an adventure with lots of animals in emergency situations. You will find out what emergencies Sloths are good at controlling (spolier: the answer is none of them!) and you will get to see lots of great animals, settings and emergency vehicles. A great new addition to this series.

Three books into this series, you know exactly what to expect from this brilliant picture team. For those of you unfamiliar with the books, each one starts with – as the titles suggest – an elephant causing calamity by taking on an unlikely task. Thereafter, every double-page spread features a different animal in a hilarious scene with the quirky narrator offering some wise rhyming advice to the reader.

If you’ve read and enjoyed the first two books in this series, You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus and You Can't Let an Elephant Drive a Digger, then you will not be disappointed with this latest instalment. In fact, I think it is my favourite of the three.

Each page has an animal in some sort of emergency service from a lifeguard llama to a chicken in the police force. My favourite has to be Porcupine from the flood rescue team, will those prickly quills be the downfall of the rubber boat?

Patricia’s short four-line rhyming verse on each page always sets the tone for David’s humour-packed illustrations. Each page is bursting with personality and little details that will have readers laughing out loud.

**This is taken from a larger review to be published on my blog on publication day 14 May**

This book is brilliant! As with the other books in this series, it is a great rhyming book about animals. It's funny and hilarious and we loved seeing all the adventures that the animals got up to. The illustrations are colourful and eye catching which is a must for a children's book. Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review this book.

This is colourful book with different animals and what they can get up to in the real world. It is a book that has lots of rhyming words within. The illustrations are interesting when reading the book on a 1:1 basis as you can talk with your child what is happening. A lovely picture book aimed at the 3-5 years olds.

Our library loves this series of books. Animals who shouldn’t be allowed to help, causing problems of such hilarity that laugh out loud moments abound during story time.
Told in brilliant rhyme with such bright and colourful illustrations these are rarely in stock.

Perfect for younger readers, I admit that some of our older ones also love these books.
We will certainly be buying this book once it is published!

In this book we see fun caricatures to show how animals end up in the most random of serious situations and how they can cause chaos in this colourful read kids will be drawn to and intrigued by.



Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

My class (and I) absolutely loved 'You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus' so I jumped at the opportunity to read this follow up. It did not disappoint.

With bright, detailed pictures with lots to spot and talk about, fun rhymes and slightly ridiculous scenarios, this book highlights the wonderful work that the emergency services do - and how terrible it might be if animals took on those roles.

I will not hesitate to purchase a copy of this for use in the classroom, and probably one for the school library too. It would be great to use as part of a topic on People Who Help Us, or simply as a story to share in an Early Years or Key Stage 1 class.

I received an eARC of this book from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

You can't call an elephant in an emergency. Don't ask a Panda to fly a fire-fighting plane. And you definitely don't want to put a porcupine in a rubber boat on a flood-rescue team. Especially not when there are crocodiles in the water...

This bright, funny picture book imagines animals in a range of silly, inappropriate jobs. It will have young readers giggling on every page and there's plenty to talk about too - why would a porcupine be a bad idea on a rubber boat? What should that chicken be doing as the robber's run from the bank? And what are those sneaky penguins up to when they should be fixing the fishmonger's car?

This story was an instant hit with my three and five-year-olds and it was a lot of fun to read aloud. Perfect for prompting imaginative play and some interesting conversations about animals.

Thank you Bloomsbury for sending me a digital copy of this picture book to review.

You Can't Call an Elephant in an Emergency is written by Patricia Cleveland-Peck and illustrated by David Tazzyman

This book was brilliant, my toddler is obsessed with animals and vehicles and this was the perfect mix!

The illustrations were fun and the story flowed very well and was entertaining for the adult reader as well as keeping the child captivated. This is also perfect to highlight the great work that emergency services do at this difficult time.

I will be buying a copy of this for us to read a bed time story when it comes out!

This was a fun book and I loved the images that were used!
My daughter is a massive fan of animals and found it really funny so it was a hit there.
It had a nice flow to the writing too – 4 stars from me for this one