Ann Whitford Paul

A little lemur goes through the day surrounded by family who love and help him.

If animals went to work, what would they do? Mail carrier Kangaroo would carry cards and packages in her pouch. Librarian Owl would read books aloud. Across the animal kingdom, every creature would be helpful in its own special way.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow different members of the animal kingdom as they experience a day at school.

When Iguana stubs her toe and cannot make her popular candies known as cactus butter dulces, Culebra the rattlesnake finds a cure that introduces the Spanish words for the numbers from one to ten.