One day, a strang-looking bird arrived at the animal hospital, rocking from side to side as he walked. One leg was too short for the other. One wing was too small to fly.
"He isn't put together right," Mouse whispered to Frog, "he's all . . . skew-whiff."
When Mouse an Frog first meet Skew-whiff, they dismiss him as clumsy and stupid, fit for nothing and no help at all. But as this delightful modern fable shows, things aren't always what they seem . . .