Nik picked out this book to read Sunday night, as he picked it from the bottom of his book pile it hit me: Oh there are things to do inside on a frigid Sunday in New England. I think he was thinking the same thing. He was so excited to read about the 'cardboard elephants' he wanted to make one right then. Unfortunately it was bedtime and i promised we would make one 'later'. He woke up the next morning and the first words out of his mouth were "I had a nice sleep, now we make cardboard elephants'. We ended up making one on Tuesday night, it was so much fun. Although ours did not look like the one in the book it as amazing just the same to him!!