A snake is as round as a hole in the ground, / and weasels are wavy and sleek; / and no alligator could ever be straighter / than lizards that live in a creek. / But a camel's all lumpy and bumpy and humpy— / any shape does for me! First published more than a century ago, this rollicking rhyme for readers and listeners up to 7 finds its ideal illustrator in Charles Santore, whose richly realistic oil paintings of cats, roosters, pigs, and a zany circus fully dramatize how a camel learns to accept its unique place in the world.