Mumi and the White Elephant (Part 1)

Mumi meets Bao, a white elephant unlike all the other elephants. Mumi is a cow, very sweet and caring, and her world is India, so the encounter happens on her ground and in her way of handling things: approach slowly and ask before judging. The story starts where it usually starts in real life, which is the awkwardness: Bao is different and it shows, and nobody pretends otherwise. What is interesting is what they do about it, and the story takes the whole first part to get there.

What this piece works on

• •That noticing a difference is not the same as rejecting it, and that you can ask respectfully.
• •Empathy: imagining how someone feels when everyone looks at them differently.
• •A first look at India, through Mumi’s world.