If young Desmond Aster can stay out of trouble for one whole day, his parents will grant him his wish, a puppy, but Desmond's day turns into a comedy of errors and surprises
A simple short book under eighty pages long, with wacky goofy illustrations about how your horoscopes can be wrong, superstitions are silly, and how sometimes you have to run headfirst into trouble to save a life or help someone. This book is cute, relatively harmless, and a fun read. A boy wants a dog so bad he'll do anything, but then realizes doing what's right trumps getting what he wants.