Toby's sister and baby brother love their schools—they smell of paint and rainbows. Toby doesn't think he likes his new school at all—it smells of ogres and he's lonely. He looks and looks for friends but he can't find any anywhere. He finds an alien, a mermaid, a dinosaur expert, and a pirate, but no friends! When his mother comes to pick him up he tells her the sad news. But if he didn't make any friends then who is in the playground waving at him? .