When a family of penguins from the South Pole decide to take their babies to the beach for a vacation they have a wonderful time and meet a lot of different animals but soon realize that there is no place like home.
On a Caribbean island during the colonial period, a governor seeks to find a feat for which he will be remembered. He enlists the help of a carpenter to cut down all of the island's trees and build a tower tall enough to reach the moon.
Paco Poyo, a newsboy in a small Mexican town, agrees to deliver a message to a patient in the local hospital for a man who offers to buy all of Paco's papers, but the simple errand turns into a grand adventure.