Inadvertently stranded in an Austrian village, an English boy takes refuge in the same barn in which his father hid during the war twenty years before.
The Christmas tree of a poor peasant family leaves their cottage on Christmas Eve and goes into the forest in search of pretty things with which to decorate himself.
The girls of Canterdown School love one thing: ponies. But the new headmistress announces that the stables will be closed in favor of more academic interests.
