"Who is the world for?" asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river.

All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question.

In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, "The world is for you!"