Gay-Kimball Library

PreS-Gr 1–A jungle version of the Indian parable of “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” in which six blind men each feel a different part of an elephant and come up with six different opinions of what it is. This version replaces the blind men with blindfolded jungle animals playing a game at a lion cub’s birthday party. The lion cub thinks that the elephant is a tree; Giraffe, a wall; Hippo, a snake; Crocodile, a fan; Zebra, a rope; and Armadillo, a pipe.

PreS-Gr 1–Entering a new grade can be hard. Emma does not want to leave her pirate-themed preschool class to attend space-themed kindergarten. She does not want to abandon her beloved pirate Cap’n Chu for spaceship Cap’n Hayes. Her teachers work together to lure Emma into kindergarten—fun space theme, good kids and great activities, a guinea pig, a reading nook—but again and again Emma “swims back” to her pirate ship.