Elephant and Snake’s initial happiness at their best friends’ playtime suddenly turns to concern when they worry that Piggie and Bat may be having “too much fun”! What if the two have so much fun together that they don’t need their best friends Elephant and Snake anymore? Anxiety turns to panic and they rush off to stop the fun, but of course they learn that new friendships and old friendships can exist simultaneously. Once again Elephant and Piggie deliver satisfying plot twists and reliable humor within a limited vocabulary and sentence structure accessible to new readers. (Ages 4–7)