One spring morning in Appleshire when the daffodils, hyacinths and tulips are smiling sleepily, Francine Mouse sets out to deliver Scarlet Squirrel's birthday cake. Francine, wearing her new shoes dyed green by grasshoppers and tied up with the threads from spider's web, trips over a hamper, and her cake falls to the ground in a 'rain' of curvy currants, cheerful cherries and squishy sultanas. Francine begins to cry, and her tears fall through the...