Jacquard Twill is a young boy who discovers a curious flannelled rodent, the pyjamadillo, leaving his house via a hidden doorway. Jacquard Twill follows and enters a world filled with Elephantalopes, leopaardvarks, hippopossumouses, Emules, buffulobsters, dogiraffes and gazellephants. The world of the ANIMUDDLES. All the great mistakes of Evolution, or the unknown wonders of Creation, who live together, deep underground, in moderate harmony. Jacquard Twill also finds he himself may be more than he appears...