An exceedingly cockeyed cuckoo in a cuckoo clock strives to achieve the impossible. This ambitious bird desires nothing less than to, "FLY BEYOND THAT MIDNIGHT TWELVE, TO FLY BEYOND INFINITY " Appealing to children as well as adults, this gentle whimsy astonishes with its ideas while inciting our laughter. To tell more would spoil the story, which positively begs reading aloud.