Mumi and the White Elephant (Part 2)

Part two, where Mumi and Bao show that their differences make them unique and that friendship has no borders. The story closes without turning Bao into the same as everyone else, which would be the easy way out and would ruin the whole thing: Bao is still different at the end, and it stops being a problem because what changed is what the others do with that difference, not the difference itself. It is a subtle distinction for a children’s story and it is what makes it worth watching twice, even with a child who already knows the ending.

What this piece works on

• •That inclusion is something the group does, not something the different one has to achieve.
• •Friendship between two who are nothing alike.
• •That a difference can be exactly what someone brings.