Library Binding
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 1, 1986)
Compares the largest and smallest in ten different animal pairs, including the Saint Bernard and the chihuahua, the ostrich and the bee hummingbird, and the whale and the porpoise.
In the Amazon rain forest, a man is chopping down a great Kapok tree. Exhausted from his labors, he puts down his ax and rests. As he sleeps, the animals who live in the tree plead with him not to destroy their world.