When Rhoda Kelly has to escape the city of London during World War II and move into the home of Doreen Dyer's family, Doreen's initial resentment causes Rhoda to flee, but seeing the error of her ways, Doreen chases after Rhoda in attempt to set things right.

At the seashore, a horse sculpted from sand yearns to ride with the white horses galloping on top of the waves.

With her father away looking for work and her mother weighed down by the troubles of the Depression of the 1930s, Mary wants to help her family and sees her father's racing pigeon Speedwell as her best hope of doing so

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A lonely princess longs for the company of two cats that are embroidered into the tapestries on the tower room walls

Two sloths sleeping in the rain forest keep sleeping despite the warnings of all the other animals that the flood has come and, when the ark arrives to save them, it's up to the elephants to rescue the sleeping sloths.

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