Product Description: Meena is excited about writing and making sets for the class play, an “improved” version of Red Riding Hood. But when her teacher insists Meena be one of the trees in the forest, she is miserable. “I can’t,” Meena says. “I’m too clumsy...read more

Embarrassed by her clumsiness, eight-year-old Meena, an Asian Indian American girl, is reluctant to appear in the school play until she gains self-confidence by practicing yoga.

Not content to spend her days resting at the bottom of the lake, Sophie the hippopotamus pursues a more action-packed life, encouraged by her feathered friend, Sebastian.

Magical things happen and new friends are made on the road to Mumbai, as Shoba and her monkey Fuzzy Patel make their way to a supposedly boring but very secret monkey wedding.