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PreS-K A droll, upbeat tale with cheery watercolor-and-ink illustrations. The story contains five vignettes about a mouse and an elephant, and the first giggle is right there in the title, since Tiny is the elephant and Hercules is the mouse. Each scenario requires some thought and ingenuity. Tiny is invited to an ice-skating party but doesn't know how to skate. Hercules needs to paint so...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The titular friends are a mouse and elephant, with unexpected names. Luckily, the cover illustration tells who's who: an arrow points from Tiny to the elephant, while another arrow points from Hercules to the mouse sitting on Tiny's trunk. Five brief episodes tell how the pals take turns helping each other out, and Schwartz's clear, colorful drawings on white backgrounds offer plenty of assistance to newly independent readers. In the first story, mouse H...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Five brief episodes tell how two pals, a mouse named Hercules and an elephant named Tiny, take turns helping each other. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In the tradition of Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad, these five stories are deceptively simple: Tiny tries to ice skate, Hercules paints, the friends open a lemonade stand, Hercules’s ancient uncle has a birthday, and the two knit sweaters for each other. Each brief story features a problem that is resolved with a clever visual punch line. When Tiny fails to master skating, we turn the page to discover a picture of little Hercules ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More