不料，天外飛來一隻貓，打翻我的咖啡，弄髒我的手稿，手稿還被一點一滴被蝸牛啃食，更慘的是，我的畫家夥伴不知怎了，大概太開心了，他畫了河馬而不是我預想的鱷魚！然後出版社也太high，居然想加入恐龍！！…這真是我最糟糕的一本書啊！

Picture books are such good fun and so is making them – but who knew there were so many things that could go wrong? This is the story of a picture book doomed from the very start. Allan has a good idea for book about a crocodile, but every time he sits down to write he’s interrupted. The manuscript gets soaked in tea and nibbled by snails. And then when Bruce gets started on the pictures, he gets over-excited and draws a hippo not a crocodile. The publishers get over-excited too – they want a dinosaur and experiment with all kinds of different fonts. Allan and Bruce think they’ve straightened things out, but then when the book goes off to the printer – you guessed it – there’s MORE trouble. Pages in French and Chinese get muddled with the English, and somehow Bruce’s hippos and dinosaurs get mixed up with them too.