Ever since she was a little armadillo, Willow has wanted to be the hero of a picture book. She even attended the Picture Book Academy. After being rejected at audition after audition, Willow's dream seems further and further away until one day Willow gets the opportunity to be a hero in real life.

Alice the armadillo discovers that she has courage and curiosity that she didn't know she had.

"Armadillo is trying to come up with a plan for global domination ... but with every new idea, being a bad guy seems a little less fun-especially if ruling the world means losing your best friend"-- Provided by publisher.

When Noah draws with the special pencil from the Zooniverse book, the picture comes to life and Noah and Blue end up with a tigerdillo, a combination of a tiger and an armadillo, on their camping trip.

Possums play dead when threatened so Alfred, an unusually nervous possum, avoids attention and even friendship until he meets Sofia, an armadillo who curls into a ball when nervous. Includes facts about the unusual defense mechanisms of animals pictured in the book.