Third-grader Harry thinks of a way to patch up a conflict with his schoolmate Mary and include his friends in a fun detective case with rewards for everyone, including Grandpa.
Although he is too little to take out the garbage, give a piggyback ride, and perform other tasks as well as his Dad can, a young child knows that there is one thing he can do as well as anyone.
In this poem based on "The Night Before Christmas," Tim and Maureen go to great lengths to set a trap, hoping to catch a real leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day and take his pot of gold.
"In this rhyming story told in the style of Clement C. Moore's holiday poem, the anticipation is building. Will the groundhog see his shadow? Will there be six more weeks of winter?"--