Commander Didlittle is a brilliant, soft-hearted, hard-nosed Commander who is sent on impossible missions. His brilliance is needed to make it through the incredible messes he gets into by never reading his orders carefully enough. His friendship with Canterbury, a ghost, also helps.
But will he be able to rescue the Flanagan family from their elusive captors, the Teeny Weenie Meanies, and restore peace to the Kumquat Island Coffee Company? Maybe with the help of the true hero of this story, nine-year-old Bradley Flanagan, who displays an abundance of common sense...an attribute that is...