In this companion volume to the motion picture, photographs and text relate the lives of a newborn walrus and an infant polar bear as they grow up in the Arctic.
In the early 1970s, a strange, nearly silent girl moves into ten-year-old Robby's neighborhood, and he befriends her knowing that something is wrong in her house, wanting to help, but not understanding enough even to express his concerns.
Professor Luwig von Glink sets out to make a perpetual motion machine, and when that fails, he continues to add on to his contraption until it takes over his entire house and attracts the notice of the Buildings and Permits Inspector, who orders the whole works demolished--which is when the City Contemporary Art Museum steps in.
