David C Hascall

What Could You Be? David C Hascall

A new arrival on little Claire's farm doesn't look like the other animals. What could it be? It moves and makes noise and has a job to do, so she's sure it's alive. Certain that it can't be a very tall sunflower, she investigates further in her big book of circus animals. It doesn't look like any of those either. The tail is not right. When she discovers the new arrival doesn't have a name, she decides to give it one. Her conversation, returned in "squeaks," leads her to create a one-of-a-kind creature, an OC-GI-REL, part octopus, part giraffe, and part elephant. Will it like its new name? A strong wind makes the OCGIREL dizzy from turning round and round, and Claire is worried. She rides to the rescue on her stick horse.