Book Description

This story about a brave, young rabbit and a family of noisy elephants will teach children how being messy, loud and disrespectful to your neighbors may lead to problems and cost you friends - and how tidying up after yourself, caring for others and keeping your planet nice and clean might help you find new ones.A family of rabbits take a liking to a lovely, little pond in an arid savanna, but their peace of mind is soon disturbed by a family of loud elephants, who find the pond just as attractive and decide to drop in. They not only begin to drink up all the water, but also turn out to be very messy and rather unfriendly. Feeling threatened and upset, the rabbits decide to teach the elephants a lesson. The youngest and bravest rabbit comes up with a plan; late at night, under a bright, full moon, he hides in the bushes and speaks to the elephants in a terrifying voice. They can only see the shadow of a Pond Monster, scolding them about their bad habits and sending them away from the pond. The frightened elephants, realizing the errors of their ways, decide to act: they clean up all their litter and dispose of it in nearby trash cans. In the morning, the rabbits awaken to tidy shores and clean water and make friends with the elephants, offering them to play by the pond together from now on.