And now he found himself in the middle of a strange group made up of several tiny people and numerous small animals. There was a mole with a pair of glasses perched on the end of its snout. A groundhog was holding a lantern between its jaws. Two mice held a miniature picnic basket between them. All of them stared at him with such an unafraid and curious intensity that Mouse felt a little uneasy. Mouse is small for his age and tired of being teased about it, but one night he discovers, much to his surprise and delight, that he fits perfectly (well, almost perfectly) into the Undergarden, a subterranean world beneath his backyard. Mouse befriends the Undergardeners - and helps them keep their existence safe from the dangerous world uptop. All that, and he never has to change out of his pajamas Desmond Anthony Ellis is an actor who was born in Ireland but would have loved to have grown up in the house in Toronto where he now lives. When not acting, Desmond observes the creatures in his own backyard and lets his imagination run wild. The Undergardeners is his first book.