GRIMWOOD

When a vulpine con artist threatens the happy forest community of Grimwood, hidden talents come to light.

The sport of treebonk (which involves jumping through the air between trees “until one team is entirely on the ground or all the players start crying”) plays a significant role in this second series romp. The forest of Grimwood stands to be turned into a theme park if its team loses a challenge with neighboring Twinklenuts Forest. Or so smooth-talking fox Sebastian Silver, who claims to be mayor of Twinklenuts, proposes. He reckons not, however, on the courage of fellow fox Nancy, newly arrived with Ted, her little brother, as parentless fugitives from the Big City in the previous episode, or haughty diva duck Ingrid, whose stories of being a spy in a previous life before turning to the theater prove not at all as improbable as supposed. In fact, though the tournament takes a disastrous turn, the multispecies residents of Grimwood unite to save the day and send the furry bad guy far, far away with a blast from the world’s largest glitter cannon (“Sparkly-sparkly-boom-boom-boom!”). Loosely drawn sketches made even scruffier by added ink smudges and fingerprints add appropriately madcap notes to the all-animal frolic.

As much fun to read as “Twinklenuts” is to say.