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by Judy Goldman (Author), Carolina Covarrubias (Author)
When they get bored on long journeys, children from various regions of Latin America sing a song that goes "An elephant was balancing on a spider's web / as he saw that it resisted, he went to call on another elephant." On the next lap, two elephants do the dangerous feat, and so on until they reach their destination, or someone gets tired of singing. In this book, the author takes this popular rhyme and makes it comical when the elephant is joined by a rhinoceros, a giraffe, and many other animals that they test the resistance of the cobweb. When it ends up falling, as expected, the story begins again.
Author Biography
Judy Goldman is the author of more than 50 children's books published in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Germany, Austria, and the United States. She also works as a translator. Carolina Covarrubias studied narrative illustration at UNAM and later took an illustration course for children at EINA Barcelona. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, Spain, and India. In 2019 she was selected as a young Mexican talent under the age of 30 in the illustration category.
