"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"-- An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.

A young knight is confident that the wall in the middle of the book protects his side from the dangers of the other side, but he doesn't seem to notice that there is danger looming on his side of the wall too.