When hard times fall on his family, Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco, where he helps his uncle fish and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister.
While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.
This expanded version of the traditional rhyme shows what happens to the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker when they go fishing in their tub.
A stranger with a bamboo pole magically catches fish and hands them out to villagers, saying "One person, one fish, " but the king will not be content until he receives a whole basket of fish.
In three episodes Paul catches a fish for dinner, makes a puppet from a stuffed animal left outside over the winter, and brings home a turtle for a pet.