Tiny Tangle the Northwoodsman and his friend Burr cling to the pontoons of a plane and take off for a great adventure. The "silver bird," as they call the plane, lands near a farm. Here they encounter a ravenous cat but are saved, in deus ex machina style, by a mysterious human whose face remains unseen. The friendly goose who had warned them of danger fortunately arrives to fly them home to their very own woods. This British fantasy is a sequel to Tangle and the Firesticks (Knopf, 1987). The watercolor illustrations are overly detailed and in some cases so jumbled as to be confusing. The main characters, with their pointed ears, hairy bodies, and clawed feet, are disturbing ugly. Their adventure, in which the diminutive Tangle and Burr meet up with cows, chickens, and that ferocious cat, jumps from scene to scene too quickly. The most interesting aspect, their brief encounters with the unseen human, remains a mysterious contrivance to save the little creatures from harm, and to move them conveniently from place to place about the house and farmyard.