Poppet is a little African elephant. When he is born, his mother warns him against mice because they run up elephants' trunks. Poppet spends some time asking various creatures if they are mice and then, to his horror, one of them says 'Yes'.
A new animal story from award-winning children's author, Dick King-Smith, concerning a baby elephant who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a mouse. Full colour. Readership level: 6+.