"It's nighttime in the rainforest, and when Mama tells young Faly to shut his eyes, he objects. "Only if Mahandry sleeps, too," he tells his mother. "But I am bigger than you, Faly," answers the older lemur brother. "I am allowed to go to bed later." Thus begins a spirited back-and-forth and a family gambol that brings a mama and her two lemur sons from the hollow of their tree to a dangerous wide river crossing to a slippery rushing waterfall and...

This books is "tribute to little kids everywhere who would prefer not to leave home on the first day of school. The other animals are marching dutifully to school, but Pascaline could care less. 'Never, not ever!' she declares. She's NOT going. And nothing-not even her parents pulling her by her feet-will change her mind. She shrieks so loudly that her parents shrink down to the size of peanuts-becoming just the right size to fit snugly under Pascaline's...