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Though Morris, a mole, is much smaller than his brothers, he proves he "can do big things." When the moles run out of food, Morris unconventionally digs up instead of down like his brothers, and he discovers the fruitful surface world. The climax involving aboveground predators resolves neatly, but Yaccarino's eye-catching geometric compositions strikingly contrast the dark underground and the bright, colorful land above.