Heeding the warning, little snail takes comfort in his small house and goes forth to see the world of polka-dotted mushrooms and lacy ferns and pebbles like the eggs of a turtle dove.
The story within a story is father snail's account of the snail who coveted and discovered how to make the biggest house (shell) in the world: with its large pointed bulges and bright designs it reminded butterflies of a circus, the frogs of a birthday cake but it was too large to move when the cabbage leaves were all eaten up, and the captive snail perished. A billowing green cabbage plant, a many-splendored snail shell that becomes a cracked and gaping ruin, and a startling ground-level landscape accompany a young snail's education in the perils of being overburdened, the pleasures of maintaining mobility.
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