Humorous illustrations and die-cut pages introduce words of the same family, such as beet, feet, and street, and then combine them in often-improbable phrases, including "beet on feet" or "feet meet."

Soon after twelve year old Julie meets her cousin, Jaya, for the first time in her life, they learn that Jaya's best friend, Ava, has fallen ill with the percali cespial fever. So, Julie and Jaya embark on a quest to find the snowbow plant, a rare plant that is believed to cure this deadly disease. Will they find the snowbow plant in time?

"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.