Curby

Nick Santinelli, driver of a New York City street sweeper, steers the powerful machine around a corner and sees a cardboard box lying in the gutter just ahead. He stops the vehicle, puts it in park and steps out to investigate. Once in a while something useful could be found in someone else's trash, or so he believes. The box moves and his first impression is that someone abandoned a bunch of puppies. He picks it up and unfolds the lids over the sides and what he sees inside shocks him. "Holy Christmas! What the hell? You cute little guy. How in a world did you get in there?"... ---from back cover