Stella and Christopher, two students who fall through the cracks of the local educational system, discover what it takes to become participatory learners.
Little Miss Muffet is bored being in the same old nursery rhyme, so she sets off to explore the other pages of the nursery rhyme book to see what the other characters are up to.
May Belle's friend Ogre likes to eat almost everything in sight, so to get him to stop, she teaches him how to have a good time as she shows him how to plant and tend a garden, how to read, and what to do when feeling bored.