Al lives with his dog Eddie in a small apartment and lives his life as a janitor. Both Al and Eddie are unsatisfied with their lives and they have started to take out their frustrations on each other. One day a humongous bird visits them and says that they can come away with him for a better life. When they do, they find a wonderful world that is everything they could have asked for until it suddenly goes awry. The message from this book can easily be seen as "be happy with what you have" but it can also be seen as "don't dream or try to better yourself." It made it a little hard for me to like the book to be honest, though Yorkins and Egielski do get some points for having an _Alice_ reference.