[1][2] A male mouse leaves his house to sit under a tree to read a book.

He keeps wading in deeper, describing each depth as a room in his house, but the bees approve and remain on his head.

When they ask a bird to check, the avian soon returns and tells them about buildings, cities, mountains, and valleys on the other side.

After the crickets go away to play their music somewhere else, the mouse goes back to bed, although the newfound quietness proves to be a new distraction.

After getting stung by bees, gathering up wet sticky mud, struggling with two heavy stones, jumping to catch crickets, and getting pricked by a thorn bush, the weasel now thinks he'll have a tasty soup.

The mouse, by this time, has safely returned to his own house and, after having some dinner, finishes reading his book.

It was directed by Bernice Chardiet, produced by Robert Mack, and contained music by Albert Hague.

[4] In 1992, the book was made into a 26-minute musical stop motion animated film by Churchill Films, directed by John Clark Matthews and starring Buddy Hackett as the voice of Mouse and Will Ryan as the voice of Weasel.