Kali is hurt when her friends tease her about her ears, trunk, and eyes. She uses various methods to shrink her features, but to no avail. She then turns to her comic books for an answer. In one of them, she reads that the friends of a famous philosopher called Socrates also teased him about his features. His reply to them helps her to come up with a reply of her own that leaves her friends wishing that they looked like her!
“Young readers will recognize the problem facing Kali the Elephant in this story, and laugh at some of her clever efforts to solve it. Author Neera Badhwar provides her character (and readers) the opportunity to discover an answer in a comic book about Socrates the philosopher. Readers will enjoy the delightful drawings and admire Kali’s persistence as she happily resolves her problem.”
—Teddi Ahrens, author of award-winning story of artist Fernando Llort, Painting Joy
