Using fruits and vegetables, children learn how things can be tall, short, smaller than or bigger than, and as a result, that two of the same thing can be very different.
Uses different animals to introduce the concept of size, comparing, for example, the length of a ring-tailed lemur's tail with that of a Boston terrier.
Sure that he is the smallest creature on earth, a young elephant leaves home and journeys over woodlands, rivers, and plains searching for someone even smaller than he is.