In the tradition of Lewis Carroll's Alice books comes this delightfully mad expedition to the kingdom of Why, where logic bends, words play tricks, and a nervous little king must bow to his own subjects. When Girlie finds a mysterious incomplete message from her brother, her curiosity proves unstoppable. She tumbles through the gate into Why, a land where animals talk, riddles have no answers, and the ruler himself is bound by the absurdest law of all: a king who must obey. G. E. Farrow's 1895 gem sparkles with the same irreverent wit that made Carroll immortal, yet it charts its own wonderfully strange course. The Wallypug himself, an anxious monarch who cannot escape his people's every whim, becomes both ruler and servant of his peculiar realm. A book for readers who discovered the secret doors in Alice, for anyone who has ever answered a question with "Why not?", for the child who believes the impossible might simply be unattempted.
