Colorful illustrations and rhyming text depicts a large family who happily live in an old, creaky house, until the doorknob falls off the front door and inspires a series of repairs and renovations.
Describes some of the unique places where animals build their homes such as in a heap of twigs, on a castle tower, in a cave, or in the hollow space inside a tree.
As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.