Puddle cannot make his friend Toot stop moping until a huge thunderstorm clears the air.

Toot and Puddle are best friends with very different interests, so when Toot spends the year travelling around the world, Puddle enjoys receiving his postcards.

Opal shares her frustrations with Toot and Puddle when the new girl at school, Bubbles, starts imitating the way she dresses and steals her ideas for class projects.

Toot travels to Wildest Borneo for exotic plants, but when he returns with the Violet Virus, it is up to Opal and Puddle to find a cure.

While Puddle is busy enjoying the "music" of Woodcock Pocket, Toot is off to the Congo on an African adventure where he is inspired to "get with the beat."

"While Toot is away, Puddle decides to plant a vegetable garden. He enlists Opal's help and together they plant tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers - all the right ingredients for a salad. They gather supplies in a big wheelbarrow, they measure out their garden and dig out rows. They rake the soil, add fertilizer, and plant seeds all afternoon. Then impatient Opal learns all the important lessons of growing a garden: she learns that plants need to be...