Francis the donkey is the best shoemaker in the village. He uses only the finest materials: coconut wood for the soles, goat's wool for the insoles, and wild tiger grass for the uppers. One day he receives a special order from his favorite singer: Miss Manatee, the queen of calypso. But he's all out of tiger grass! To make the perfect pair of shoes, Francis must journey deep into the jungle . . . and that means leaving his village for the first time....

Sam is excited about getting new shoes, and as he grows into the shoes he becomes old enough to help his father on the farm, eventually becoming a farmer himself.

Tinky, Minky, and Kukuli decide to race paper planes, Tinky’s plane barely flies and falls to the ground as soon as it takes off whereas Kukuli’s plane is really good and flies really far! After the race, Kukuli is not able to find his plane. Minky and Kukuli blame Tinky, they think she has taken Kukuli's plane! But the reality is Kukuli has forgotten his plane somewhere else and Tinky was just trying to make a new paper plane to Kukuli!

In the late 1800s, Maggie Walker, an African American community leader, helped establish a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, a community center, and an educational loan fund, among other humanitarian projects. She was also the first woman in the United States to become founder and president of a chartered bank.