Poppet by Dick King-Smith

Ms O'Connor's 3rd class have been reading the short novel "Poppet" by famous author Dick King-Smith. 

Poppet is a little African elephant. When he is born, his mother warns him against mice because they run up elephants' trunks. Poppet spends some time asking various creatures if they are mice and then, to his horror, one of them says 'Yes!'