When his mother moves their family to the city, Frisk, an adventurous fox cub, gets excited about exploring and, instead of sleeping during the day when it is safe, he begins following a girl to school and learning about "magic white marks" called letters.

A determined elephant creates his own book box and discovers all the magic and fun of books and reading.

Time travel, a computer virus that is deadly to humans, and other strange things begin to happen when some would-be witches come to stay with the eccentric Strega-Borgia family