This picture book is ideal to help little people learn about independence. Little Elephant is a big boy, and he has an extremely important mission: to go ON HIS OWN to buy some of the finishing touches for Tortoise's hundredth birthday. What could go wrong? He only has to buy candles, chocolate, balloons... and he knows where he needs to go to get it all. But, without knowing how, he gets into trouble: he forgets how much he needs, eats the chocolate and arrives late everywhere, gets held up helping a lost meerkat... the mission is a total disaster. In this story, Susanna Isern takes up the subject of how to confront responsibility for the first time, and cope with the consequences.