Description: Each time the apple rolls across a different animal's back, its bumpy, wobbly, ticklish, prickly, rough, or curvy texture is expressed through playful, uniquely varied sound and motion words - rolling and tumbling in ways that make this baby picture book a joy to read aloud. The story begins when an elephant tries to pick an apple, but it slips off his trunk and goes rolling, rolling, rolling. It then rolls across the back of the giraffe standing behind him, then the hippo, then the camel, then the flamingo, the monkey, the echidna, the crocodile, and the snake - until at last it reaches a baby's hands, who happily eats it up. P.4: The apple goes rolling, rolling, rolling across the elephant's back. Somebody, catch that apple! P.9: The apple goes rolling, rolling, rolling across the hippo's back standing behind him. Little apple, where are you going?