Pyxie is a small boy who lives with the gypsies in the New Jersey woods and who prefers the woods to school. Although his salvation is finally accomplished through the book wagon which comes from the county library, his first friend from the civilized world is Amanda, a little girl, who finds him making himself a bed of leaves in the deep woods when the 'Piney people,' his gypsy friends, have deserted him.

Pyxie is a character who will rival Gay Madelon and Johnny Ping Wing in the affections of Miss Phillips's many readers.

The book is illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney, who depicts the gypsies, the Italians, and the cranberry bogs, in a way to make them fascinating to young readers.

From the dust jacket