Living creatures large and small are assembled in Julie’s bedroom. This nine-year-old adopted daughter of Jules Feiffer loves animals, and she’s putting together a zoo in her room. By carefully working on her mother and father, she collects a sick cat, a hamster, a big, ugly fish, six smaller fish that start to disappear, a turtle, a strong-minded kitten, an unresponsive hermit crab, and a borrowed classroom rabbit who appears to be dying.