Presents a humorous look at Adam and Eve's time in the Garden of Eden, in which they describe their opinions of naming the animals, eating the forbidden fruit, and their sons, Cain and Abel.
A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
To fulfill a prophesy, King Hubert must find the animal with the sweetest song to watch over his country by his fourteenth birthday or disaster will strike the country.