...the guy from the Prologue. You know - the "second rate writer" who made friends with the cricket Jeffrey. What great good luck that I was able to translate into English Jawser's endless chirps. It wasn't easy! But it was sure worth it. I just learned that a nine-year-old boy, Benjamin, is enjoying Jeffrey's tales. Wait 'till I tell that crafty old cricket! And Benjamin is a kid who, in visiting his grandparents, traveled out here to California all by himself from Massachusetts! Sure hope Benjamin stays with the story. We sure need more readers like him. Benjamin is a traveler, just like the twenty animals on migration here. Let's see where these creatures are off to now, and what tales they're telling...