Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed, but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.

Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.

Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.