The stories of this book blend Baum's animal fairy tales with his usual form of fantasy (sending an earth character into the fairy world), by sending a Dakotan farm girl called Twinkle, and sometimes her friend Chubbins, into animal worlds, like those of prairie dogs and woodchucks. Some of the stories are most successful than others: in some, Twinkle merely wanders around a bit and learns to see things from an animal's perspective; in others, there's actually a plot of sorts. I'd expect to find the latter better than the former, but the Twinkle tale that's the most plot-driven ("Prince Mud-Turtle", about a fairy prince enchanted into the form of a mud-turtle) is the least interesting. Far better are the stories where we see our human world from an outside perspective, either through animals commenting on it, as in "Mr. Woodchuck", or through animals reenacting our human rituals and problems, as in "Bandit Jim Crow". The latter was my favorite story in the book (perhaps not coincidentally, Twinkle's role in this one is brief and incidental), a shocking violent rumination on the perils of law and justice. It's no wonder that Baum wrote a followup, "Policeman Bluejay", which is nearly as long as the other six stories in the book put together. It's good too, though I prefer the first story. (It has its high points, though, such as Twinkle and Chubbins's transformation into birds with human heads, and the creepy utopia that is the bird land of Paradise.) "Twinkle's Enchantment" is another good story; this hews closer to the typical Baumian tale of an earth character meandering through a fantasy land. Though bringing an earth character into the animal fairy tale renders these stories more enjoyable than the ones in Animal Fairy Tales, I'm not exactly disappointed that after this book, Baum basically ditched the form. I am disappointed that Policeman Bluejay never made a comeback, though.