A powerful saga of courage, leadership and survival in the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns.

More and more gifts arrive on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

Two mice, one who sleeps inside the house in a clock and one who sleeps outside the house in a stump, follow complicated but strangely parallel paths and meet each other at a window.

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.