What could possibly keep Lewis Tiggle from enjoying his twelfth birthday and the last day of school before summer vacation? Having his sister, Lallie, under foot might spoil his special day. But what he doesn't know is that together with Lallie, their precocious cat, and a friendly mouse, they'll all be sucked into a watery hole in the wake of a very strange storm that strikes their seaside village of Mousehole, England. A terrifying voyage through the depths of the ocean takes them to a mysterious place called Pood: a hostile, threatening land filled with secrecy and oddities. When they...

Rarely a day goes by that Lewis and Lallie Tiggle and their Poodian friend, Milik, don't look to the sky for another funnel cloud to take them back to Pood, a mysterious land beneath the North Atlantic Ocean. As weeks turn into months, they give up hope, and thoughts of Poodian friends begin to fade. But events change when a fierce blizzard blankets their little village of Mousehole, England. While Lewis and the others make light of the storm, Mup-their precocious cat-notices a strange occurrence in the backyard: an icy funnel cloud tunneling a hole in the frozen ground. Could this be the...