A gust of wind blows Frog’s hat onto the ground where Elephant sits on it. When asked to move Elephant says, ” ‘ I can’t because I’m too hungry to move.’ ” Elephant asks Frog for something round to eat. Frog brings him an orange. Then Frog is asked for something triangular ( a sandwich), then rectangular ( chocolate bar), then a circle within a circle ( a bagel), then round inside of something triangular ( an ice cream cone), and finally “ ‘…something with a …special shape.’  The frog came back empty-handed…I hung it over there!… Then Elephant str-e-e-tched his long trunk to reach the thing with the special shape – and sucked the sweet honeycomb.” You probably have guessed what happened next, Elephant runs away from the attacking bees in their hexagonal honeycomb and frog finally gets her hat back.

There are six pages following the story, two of which are especially geared for adults to use while working with a child learning geometric shapes

The math concept (figures, shapes, space) is well represented and the story line is fine, too bad the art work isn’t more appealing. Frog and Elephant are torn paper tempera painted figures on a flat dull landscaped background. The most interesting aspect is Elephant’s trunk made of a single piece of torn corrugated cardboard.