title: Extra-Ordinary Elephants: Cool and Interesting Facts (Age 6 and above) (Discovering The World Around Us)
author:  TJ Rob 
description: The old adage that "knowledge is power" seems to resonate more so than ever today. Reading and learning gives kids that power, and in today's increasingly competitive world, the more knowledge kids have at their fingertips, the more prepared they will be to meet the challenges of our modern world. I wish to pass on my love of reading and exploring the world around us to all those new younger readers. So join me on my many voyages of discovery, learning about the many incredible things, people and creatures that make our world such a fascinating place. TJ Rob - www.TJRob.com
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  [Begin Reading](The_Last_Continent_split_002.html#filepos827)
  
  Against the stars a turtle passes, carrying four elephants on its shell.
  
  Both turtle and elephants are bigger than people might expect, but out between
  the stars the difference between huge and tiny is, comparatively speaking,
  very small.
  
  But this turtle and these elephants are, by turtle and elephant standards,
  big. They carry the Discworld, with its vast lands, cloudscapes, and oceans.
  
  People don’t live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the
  multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body
  eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very
  handily around the center of their heads.
  
  When gods get together they tell the story of one particular planet whose
  inhabitants watched, with mild interest, huge continent-wrecking slabs of ice
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