"The sun is shining in the Hundred Isles, and yet the path forward seems crowded with shadows. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have traveled across the world, seeking a set of powerful talismans in order to keep them from enemy hands. Throughout their journey the young heroes have been hounded by pursuers, who always seem to know just where to find them. Now they know why. One of them is a traitor"--Page 4 of cover.

"Bob, an alligator who owns a popular restaurant for birds, now faces stiff competition from a new pizza shop in town and must cope with his resentment"--

Hedgie, the hedgehog, helps Henny, the speckled hen, trick the Tomten who has been eating all of Henny's eggs for breakfast.

"Two mischievous narrators imagine what everyone's poo must look like: shiny, revolving poo for astronauts, unusually shaped poo for the balloon man, and so on--their pondering only comes to an end, when their father steps in to explain how everybody's poo is the same and how it helps nature bloom. The hilarity, however, never ends."--