Hide & Seek, Near & Far is a "First Look and Find" book featuring Grover and Elmo traveling around the world to seven countries. In each country, they find interesting things to look at. In a desert in Egypt, Grover and Elmo find pyramids, a camel and a mummy. On a mountain in Tibet, they find a monastery, with a monk, a yak and a snow leopard. A small town in China is celebrating Chinese New Year, and they see a panda, a rickshaw, and some bamboo. In the Australian outback, they see a boomerang, a kookaburra, and a didgeridoo. In the Costa Rica rainforest, they see a snake, a jaguar and a mango.