Back comes Pudding (who hadn’t gotten very far anyway) to make a new home and become a Very Good Friend. But when her less jittery animal neighbors gang up to point out that she’s being irrational, Jitterbug acknowledges her mistake. Prompted by fear of change, Jitterbug peremptorily orders Pudding to turn back. Along the way she meets friends who share important thoughts she tucks away as irrelevant but “good information.” The Something turns out to be a Someone, namely slow-talking Pudding the snail, a refugee from the recently flooded garden over the hill. Replete with twee Capital Letters, the tale sends Jitterbug the chipmunk skittering from her cozy nest in search of the Something New that her sensitive tummy tells her has come to the forest. The creators of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (2018) press another topical hot button.
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