It tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H.

Bastable, as well as Daisy and Denis Foulkes, and their attempts to perform good deeds, which usually go awry.

While living at the Red House in Blackheath, the children decide to turn the garden into a jungle and re-enact scenes from The Jungle Book, but this causes a good deal of damage.

As a consequence, the Bastable children are sent to the country to spend the summer at Moat House near Maidstone.

There they attempt various good deeds, which usually backfire and lead to unintended results.