This book is more like a series of stories spanning a year at Oddfellow's Orphanage. Delia is probably as main a character as you're going to get, as she is the newest arrival at the orphanage.

I didn't really like this book. To me, there wasn't much point to the stories. They were cute, but very simple and not tied together that well. At the start, I expected it to be a kids version of Miss Pergrine's Home for Peculiar Children, but it wasn't. There wasn't enough backstory to explain why the children were special. For instance, why is there a talking hedgehog? Why does one boy have an onion for a head? Why can't Delia speak? These questions are pretty obvious, but an answer isn't even hinted at in the pages of the book. It's a quick read, but I found it disapointing.