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As Little Fish searches for his mother in the African pond where they live, he sees okapis and hippos, crawfish and jocanas, but not his mother. At last he finds her swimming at the very bottom of the pond. The story is told with a jaunty, chantlike rhythm, and the bright collages show his mother looking for him on each page.