An Inuit child learns that her mother's love is unconditional when she disobeys and journeys across the Arctic, from village to ice floe, in search of her puppy.
A young koala, longing to hear her mother speak lovingly to her as she did before other children came along, plans to win her distracted parent's attention.
Raymond, in an effort to escape doing chores for his mother, decides to try using the comic book device of writing "meanwhile" to transport himself to a different location, and finds himself in all sorts of dangerous adventures.