The story of a Native American girl, called Flower After the Rain, asked to weave a blanket for an Indian chief offers a lesson in the importance of self-confidence, and in the value of giving and receiving to the Navajo people.

Despairing over the effects of a withering drought on his homeland, little Rising Moon turns to his grandfather, Four Winds, for reassurance that the natural world will survive, and is told the parable of the resilient Apple Tree.