A funny picture book about friendship, in the tradition of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad. Mr. Biddles is a cat inventor, and Hobson is a lobster that is left on his front porch. An odd pair indeed, but when Hobson joins Biddles in the lab (where he invented not only his catnip diffuser but also his automatic mail retriever ), they discover that Hobson has a gift: two super-useful claws. Mr. Biddles always needed help in the lab, but...