When they get bored on long journeys, children from various regions of Latin America sing a song that goes "An elephant was balancing on a spider's web / as he saw that it resisted, he went to call on another elephant." On the next lap, two elephants do the dangerous feat, and so on until they reach their destination, or someone gets tired of singing. In this book, the author takes this popular rhyme and makes it comical when the elephant is joined by a rhinoceros, a giraffe, and many other animals that they test the resistance of the cobweb. When it ends up falling, as expected, the story begins again.