This book is about friendship. There are four main characters: a mole, a rat, a badger, and a toad. The story begins when the mole heads out of his burrow. He sees the rat, who is just about to go paddling. He decides to go paddling with the rat. An otter comes by, and agrees to have lunch with them. Halfway through lunch, the badger comes by. At the moment, he is shy and walks away. then, when the mole and the rat paddle away, disaster struck. The mole gets a turn to row, and accidentally capsized the boat. The rat rescues some of the items dropped, but loses the luncheon basket. They have many adventures, and meet many new friends. The story ends with the toad, who is arrogant, boastful, and vainglory, totally changing.

A fox stole 3 little chicks. First he wanted to eat them but then he grew quite attached to them. In the end, he tries to help the whole group of chickens to anti fox. I like the part where the chickens transform into a big gigantic chicken monster.