Description Not all baby animals are teeny little bundles. Readers will learn about some big, but no less adorable, baby elephants. Vivid photographs paired with text teach young readers about the lives of elephant calves. They will learn about elephants' unusually long gestation period and the awkward stage of learning to use their trunk and four large legs. Then, elephants grow up to become one of the herd or depart to live alone, in the case of young bulls.