Graeme Base

Uno builds a home and garden in the magnificent forest among the playful puddlebuts and feathered frinklepods, but as the place becomes more and more popular, it is overtaken by tourists and buildings until the forest and animals seem to disappear altogether.

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

When a family's wheat crop is threatened by locusts, tiny flying elephants come to the rescue.