Conejos Library District

When the animals begin to compare tails, Max the elephant is not happy with his. But Mama Elephant explains that animals use tails in different ways and that Max's tail carries out its purpose by swishing away flies.

Using simple rhyming words, various types of animal tails are described.

Explains, in rhymed text and illustrations, what tails are and aren't, what they can and can't do, and where they do and don't grow.

The reader is asked to guess what a creature is from a description of the appearance and use of the its tail.

Rhyming text, textured illustrations, lift-up flaps, and scratch-and-sniff spots teach about animal names, shapes, colors, and numbers, one to ten.

"Many animals have similar tails. The donkey's tail waves just as cheerfully as a zebra's. And doesn't the tail of a little fish look like the tail of a big whale? And who has a tail that looks a lot like a horse's tail?"--Back cover.

After losing his tail, Churchill the pig's friends help him search for a new one but he becomes so caught up in how each new tail makes him feel, he forgets his friends completely.