Fairy tale characters tell their stories from their own perspective, with new endings, and find themselves encountering each other as their stories overlap.
Catching a baby in his hat sets off a series of adventures for a young nineteenth-century English boy as he becomes a sea captain and finds a surprising mate.
"Oh, your daddy was a baby once / And your mommy was a baby once ..." Characters in these nineteen diverse poems also include a soccer-playing Cinderella, snowmen who take holidays by the sea, dancing sausages, and three Unwise Men.
As Mr. Gaskitt takes a series of jobs and Mrs. Gaskitt keeps winning prizes, their nine-year-old twins, Gus and Gloria, follow a substitute teacher who seems too good to be true.
