9 stories
Africa
From the Creators of Finding Dory and Coco.
Roland the Minstrel Pig
Roland leads a happy life, delighting his friends with song and cheer. But he longs to see the world. After a tearful goodbye, he departs on a merry adventure, until he encounters the sly Fox. A charming medieval fairytale. Full color.
Whales the Movie
In ocean reef in Humpback Whale named Michael his friends with happy and swim.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Sylvester, a donkey from the fictional community of Oatsdale, collects pebbles "of unusual shape and color." One day he finds a pebble that grants wishes. Immediately afterward, a lion scares Sylvester, and as a defense he wishes himself into a rock — the only thing he could think of at the moment. Unfortunately, the magic pebble falls off the rock, and Sylvester is unable to revert to his donkey form as the pebble must be in contact with the wish-maker to work. The rest of the story deals with the resulting aftermath: Sylvester's personal attempt to change back into his true self and his parents' search for their only son.
Amos & Boris
Amos the mouse and Boris the whale have little in common except that they are both mammals and save each other's lives.
Doctor De Soto
The story is about Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist who lives in a world of anthropomorphic animals. He and his wife, who serves as his assistant, work together to treat patients with as little pain as possible. Dr. De Soto uses different chairs, depending on the size of the animal, with Mrs. De Soto guiding her husband with a system of pulleys for treating extra-large animals. They refuse to treat any animal who likes to eat mice. One day, a fox with a toothache drops by and begs for treatment. Dr. De Soto feels pity for the fox and Mrs. De Soto suggests they risk it, so they admit the fox for treatment. They give the fox some anesthetic and proceed to treat the bad tooth. However, while under the effects of the anesthetic, the fox unknowingly exclaims how he would love to eat the mice, but also notes that it is crass to try to eat the creature that had just relieved him of much pain. The De Sotos remove the bad tooth, and tell the fox to come back the next day to get a false tooth. Later that night, Dr. and Mrs. De Soto debate whether to readmit the fox. Dr. De Soto feels it was foolish to trust a fox, but Mrs. De Soto says she thinks the fox was reacting to the anesthetic in his comments. In the end Dr. De Soto vows to finish the job, and they prepare the new tooth, formulating a plan for how to insert it without getting eaten. The next day, the fox returns; he is much happier, out of pain, and anxiously awaits installation of his new tooth. The De Sotos proceed with their work, but the fox is licking his lips and thinking about eating the mice. The De Sotos use a long stick to open his jaws and put in the new tooth. The fox has decided to eat them, but his jaws are braced apart, so he cannot grab them. Dr. De Soto uses a special mouth glue and spreads it onto the fox's teeth. When the fox closes his mouth, his teeth are stuck together. The De Sotos tell him to wait a few days or a few hours before the special glue wears off. (They kept their plan a secret from the fox and pretended that it was part of the treatment). The fox goes home, not realizing that he had been tricked, but disappointed at his failure to eat the De Sotos. The book ends with the De Sotos triumphant at having "outfoxed the fox", and they take the day off.
George's Marvellous Medicine
While 8-year-old George's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kranky, are out running errands, George's maternal grandmother bosses him around and bullies him. She scares George by saying that she likes to eat insects and he wonders briefly if she's a witch. To punish her for her regular abuse, George decides to make a magic medicine to replace her old one. He collects a variety of ingredients from around the family farm including deodorant and shampoo from the bathroom, floor polish from the laundry room, horseradish sauce and gin from the kitchen, animal medicines, engine oil and anti-freeze from the garage, and brown paint to mimic the colour of the original medicine. After cooking the ingredients in the kitchen, George gives it as medicine to his grandmother, who grows as tall as the house, bursting through the roof. When his grandmother doesn't believe it was George who made her grow so tall, he proves it by feeding the medicine to one of his father's chickens, which grows ten times its original size. Mr. and Mrs. Kranky return home and can't believe their eyes when they see the fattest chicken ever and the grandmother. George's father grows very excited at the thought of rearing giant animals so that they can end world hunger, and his family will be rich and famous. He has George feed the medicine on the rest of the farm's animals, causing them to become giants as well. However, his grandmother begins complaining about being ignored and stuck in the roof, so Mr.Kranky hires a crane to remove her from the house. Her extreme height has her sleeping in the barn for the next few nights. The following morning, Mr. Kranky is still excited about George's medicine and announces that he and George shall make gallons of it to sell to farmers around the world. George attempts to recreate it, but is unable to remember all the ingredients. The second medicine makes a chicken's legs grow extremely long, and the third elongates a chicken's neck to bizarre proportions. The fourth has the opposite effect of the first and makes animals shrink. George's grandmother, now even more angry she's sleeping in the barn, storms over and starts complaining loudly that she's once again sick of being ignored. She sees the cup of medicine in George's hand and mistakes it for tea. Much to his and Mrs. Kranky's horror, and Mr. Kranky's delight, she drinks the entire cup and shrinks so much that she vanishes completely. At first, Mrs. Kranky is shocked and confused about the sudden, and very strange, disappearance of her mother, but soon accepts that she was becoming a nuisance anyway. George reflects on the recent events, feeling as though they had granted him access to the edge of a magic world.
The Enormous Crocodile
The story takes place in Africa. The story begins at a large, deep river, where an enormous, greedy crocodile is telling a smaller crocodile, known as the Not-So-Big One, that he wants to eat children, especially girls, for his lunch. The small crocodile objects, because children taste "nasty and bitter" in his opinion compared to fish, and because of what happened the last time the big crocodile tried to eat children. The larger crocodile leaves the big, brown muddy river anyway, and announces his intention to Humpy Rumpy the hippopotamus, Trunky the elephant, Muggle-Wump the monkey and the Roly-Poly Bird. The animals insult him and hope that he will fail and will himself be killed and eaten, after which the crocodile briefly and unsuccessfully attacks Muggle-Wump and the Roly-Poly Bird. First of all, the crocodile heads to a coconut tree forest, not far from a town and disguises himself as a small coconut tree with branches and coconuts, hoping to eat a pair of children, Toto and Mary, but is exposed by Humpy Rumpy. Next, the crocodile heads to a children's playground located outside an ancient school building and disguises himself as a see-saw, with the help of a piece of wood, hoping to eat a whole class of children, but is exposed by Muggle-Wump. Then, the crocodile heads to a funfair and, when nobody is looking, he disguises himself as a wooden crocodile on a merry-go-round by sandwiching himself between a lion and a dragon (with a pink-red tongue sticking out of its mouth) hoping to eat a young girl named Jill who wants to ride on him, but is exposed by the Roly-Poly Bird. Lastly, the crocodile heads to a picnic place outside the town. He picks a bunch of flowers and arranges it on one of the tables before, (from the same table,) taking away one of the benches and hiding it in the bushes and then disguising himself as a long, wooden four-legged bench, hoping to eat four children who are going out on a picnic, but is exposed by Trunky. Following a brief confrontation, Trunky teaches the crocodile an unforgettable lesson by swinging him round and round in the air by his tail, slowly and gently to start off with, and then faster and faster. Eventually, Trunky lets go of the crocodile’s tail, sending the fiend himself flying through the sky, away from Earth and into space. The crocodile whizzes past the Moon, past some stars and past some planets before finally crashing headlong into the Sun where he is incinerated.
The Wainscott Weasel
While other young weasels dance under the pines, Bagley thinks about Bridget, the mesmerizing fish who lives in a pond down the brook from his den. Only a true hero can save Bridget from the gruesome death that awaits her'and this is exactly what Bagley, much to his own surprise, proves himself to be.
