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It is Eddy the pug's birthday party, and the grumpy magician hired to entertain cannot get a single trick to work. Just as the birthday child starts to lose interest, the cake arrives, and Eddy gets so excited that he lets out a series of farts that blow out every candle in one perfect sweep. A few more puffs send the candle smoke swirling into a heart, a star, and a smiley face, and the whole party erupts with cheers. The magician tries to take the credit, but the birthday child knows exactly who the real star of the party is.

In this companion volume to Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, we visit again with Merlin, a timeless traveler from Planet Omniscia, who answers a collection of imaginative questions about the cosmos from curious stargazers. Whether waxing poetic about Earth and its environs, the Sun and its stellar siblings, physical laws, or galaxies near and far, Merlin’s remarks are witty, humorous, and clear as a starry night sky.

On a sleepless moonlit night, Eddy follows a warm scent through misty cobbled streets to a tiny bakery where a flour-dusted hedgehog named Pip is panicking – his dough refuses to rise, and dawn is coming. A curious nibble from a mysterious jar leads to the loudest, most magical accident of Eddy's life, and to a quiet family secret passed down through generations. A tender, comedic, nocturnal adventure about an unlikely friendship discovered between midnight and dawn.

*Revised and updated for the twenty-first century* In this updated, illustrated companion volume to Merlin's Tour of the Universe, we visit again with Merlin, a timeless space traveler from Planet Omniscia, who answers a collection of imaginative questions about the cosmos from Earthlings of all...