Discusses the physical characteristics of salamanders, where they live, what they eat, their young, and how they protect themselves and how they are in danger.

Follows the unique life cycle of spotted salamanders as they change from eggs to larvae to fully grown adult salamanders.

Wendell the iguana's dreams are all nightmares and a Dream Wasp wants him as a host for her eggs--so, with Great-grandfather Dragonbreath's help, Danny the dragon and Suki the salamander enter Wendell's dreams to try to defeat the wasp.