Toy Dance Party: being the further adventures of a bossy-boots stingray, a courageous buffalo, and a hopeful round someone called Plastic

A Note on the Textual References

The book about the mouse in the dungeon is The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. The TV show about the children who drink pink milk is Charlie & Lola, adapted from the picture books by Lauren Child: I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, I Am Too Absolutely Small for School, etc. The movie entitled The Fairy Treasure does not exist.

As Spark points out, Lumphy is an American buffalo, which is to say, he is technically a bison. American buffalo are not true buffalo (like the water buffalo of Asia or the cape buffalo of Africa—to whom they are only distantly related). Instead, they are most closely related to the European bison, and the species to which they belong is bison. However, Lumphy himself knows nothing about any of this.

“Love Train” is the 1973 hit by the O’Jays. I chose it as Frank’s favorite song from the radio because I thought it would sound good in Frank’s voice and because children I know enjoy it.

The nature documentaries described are imaginary, and the “facts” about great white sharks spurious. Likewise, the information about cheese.