Baboon

This is the stor of an infant baboon that is just learning the ways of the world on a tour with her mother. Like other books that Kate Banks has written, this is a soothing reassuring tale about building understanding through experience and a mother's reassurance that the world is wonderful place if you only know to proceed with caution.

A baby baboon tries to make sense of the world his mother shows him by going from the particular to the general. They finally agree that the world is big.

"On his first trip into the world, a baby baboon meets a very slow turtle and concludes that the world is slow. But then, as his mother takes him farther afield, he sees much more: he watches a hungry crocodile, a thundering herd of elephants, a swift gazelle, a rhinoceros. He feels the heat of a fire, the softness of grass, the warmth of the sun. Throughout the day, everything he experiences expands his understanding, and when night falls, he has seen with his own eyes that the world is a big and varied place."
-From Amazon