"Rolling and leaping at their play, two whales swam in a sunlit bay." But when the tide turns, the baby whale gets stranded on the beach. But don't worry, the L

When digging out a drain, the little yellow digger gets stuck in the mud. So they bring in a bigger digger . . .

"Too many hippos," the chief keeper said as he took off his cap and he scratched his bald head. "I'm afraid that a number may soon have to go." But the keeper's

When it is rock 'n' roll time during the prehistoric era, many different kinds of dinosaurs gather to twist, twirl, and tromp at a Saturday night party.

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn