Cushion is a porcupine who lives in a petting zoo. Yes, a petting zoo. He's understandably lonely and decides he wants a wife to keep him company, so goes off in search of his one true love singing his refrain:
I’ve been so lonesome all of my life.
No one will get near.
I’m porcupining for a wife,
Someone to hold me dear.
Wheeler crafts the story with cleverly-written rejections and gives him a final true love that is perfect.
Janie Bynum, illustrator, offers Cushion and the other zoo animals visual character with wonderful expressions of loneliness, horror, and joy.
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