The illustrations are really quite fun and unique and interesting.  Unfortunately, the story does not live up to them. It’s kind of long and rambling and underdeveloped.  It starts with a mean and cranky pet shop owner with a shop full of sad animals; when a local girl goes in to rescue her rabbit which somehow ended up inside, she lets all the animals loose, and the mean owner won’t go after them because he’s too vain to go out without his wig; overcome with loneliness without his animals, the shop owner turns to creating stuffed animals and all the free animals come back to help and they’re all happy.  But there’s nothing in the telling of it that actually makes the reader care.