In order to win the prize on Grown-Up Day at school, a little boy looks all over town for the grown-up with the most interesting job, and succeeds in finding a man whose unusual occupation is dunking.
"A musical cricket and his friends, a mouse and a cat of real character, take up their abode in a Times Square newsstand. The boy Mario, who helps his parents run the newsstand, brings the cricket food and a little Chinese cage to live in.".