When her father decided that Anna Lavinia's horizon needed broadening, he hit on the simple plan of tearing down part of the garden wall to give her a new point of view. Squarely in the middle of her new viewpoint rose Dew Pond Hill, and on a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia set out to explore it. What lay on the other side at once involved her in as many mysteries as a nest of boxes, and together with a new friend, Toby, she began to unravel them all in a wonderful upside down world.

Readers who first met Anna Lavinia in Mr. Brown's BEYOND THE PAWPAW TREES will here meet again her pet hedgehog and parrot and ginger cat and the polka-dotted thobby, and they will find more verses from her favorite book, Songs from Nowhere.

From the dust jacket