When eleven-year-old Rosy's friend Hermione announces that Rosy is having a Valentine's party, a dismayed Rosy finds herself in unwilling competition with the sophisticated Christi who is planning an exclusive party on the same day.
An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief.