Uproot Snort is a young Wild Boar who has been identified by Magnus, Lord of all the Boars and working for the King, as having an extremely sensitive nose and will grow up to be able to smell things that no other Wild Boar has ever been able to smell. Uproot does not know what the King will have in mind for him when he is older. He is not even sure what a King is .... he knows that those human beings sometimes have Kings, but he also knows that the Lion is the King of the jungle. One day he will find out exactly where his life and the later adventures will lead. In the meantime Uproot attends school with all his new classmates, including Wilfred Woodpecker who pecks holes in his desk when he talks, Harriet Hedgehog who sleeps most of the time and hasn't pronounced Uproot Snort's name correctly yet. Then there is Olivia Dormouse, the smallest in class, but who is by far the bossy one of them all. There is Jack Rabbit who keeps getting his words wrong, and many many more characters. In this, the second book in the gentle and humorous series of the early adventures of Uproot Snort, we see what the class make of a Geography lesson and learn a little of the way that young animals view human beings, and the seemingly illogical things that human beings do. When the invisible monster appears, it is Uproot who is the bravest of all and once again becomes a hero to his classmates