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- Flapper throws a party with a surprise cake which is in the pantry. As everyone gathers around Flapper's house, Maggie notices the shiny pantry key. When Flapper wants to show everyone the surprise, he notices that the key is missing.
- Flapper hits upon the idea of organizing a spring concert in the wood. Everyone is very excited about performing and starts to rehearse separately. This story shows how order and harmonious cooperation are important in life.
- Malcolm receives a parcel with a toy plane inside. He goes to Flapper at once but does not want to share with him. Suddenly, the plane is wound too much and disappears beyond the hills.
- Malcolm runs with raspberry syrup to Beaver who is sick. He trips and hurts his knee. Flapper, who is just passing by, tells Malcolm he will help him.
- Flapper and his friends organize a camp in the woods. Flapper and Pinky are appointed the guardians of the camp flag. Wolf and Fox are discontented with it, as they wanted to take this night watch too.
- Pinky finds a crown and a royal robe in Magpie's old casket. She dresses up and checks herself in the mirror, imagining she is a princess. Eventually, she begins to behave like a real princess.
- A mysterious hero appears in Our Woods and, when nobody is watching, helps the inhabitants out of various troubles. Flapper and his friends cudgel their brains over who the mysterious gentleman might be.
- The inhabitants of Our Woods get a treasure map. However, it soon turns out that they are not able to use it together. Instead of cooperating, they begin to quarrel and the map is torn into three pieces.
- Pinky and Flapper find Bernard the Bear in the woods, who suffers greatly from a stomach ache. The two friends decide to help Bear.
- The whole neighbourhood echoes with rows caused by the joker who plays nasty tricks on the inhabitants of the woods. Irritated friends decide to do away with the joker.
- Our Woods is preparing for grand football tournament. Suzie also prepares for it, however, nobody in the woods believes that a squirrel can play football. Unfortunately, on this day she loses her glasses.
- Flapper, with Pinky's help, finishes the building of his new, dream battery-powered ride-on. The magnificent toy absorbs him so much that he forgets that today is his birthday.
- Flapper and Beaver set out for a walk in the woods, during which Billy loses his memorial, happy ball. Hare decides to help his friend in finding the precious loss.
- 1914, the European cascade of war declarations is welcomed by young patriots hoping for glory. Although under legal age to join the army, French schoolboy Lucien Bonnet braves father's desperate attempts to talk some survival sense into his romantic nationalist head. Under a fake identity, the nave passes recruitment, pretending to seek revenge for his 'family' being bombarded in German-occupied Belfort. Only when a real family friend, who played along, falls under German fire before his eyes, he resolves to dump his uniform and return home. He is however caught by his severe captain, who orders a firing squad without trial for the deserter. Luckily his adult comrades arrange for him to escape, officially shot.
- Life in occupied countries, like nearly all of Belgium since the German invasion, was hard for those civilians who hadn't fled, due to requisitioning, rationing, all kinds of regulations and hefty fines. Some were deported as forced laborers, some caught smuggling or electocuted at the Duch border. In the story, a girl's family is blackmailed to pay a huge ransom to avoid child deportation, driving them to smuggling, with tragic results, also for the German troops.
- In a Scottish town near Edinburg, most young men volunteer spontaneously for imaginary soldiering glory, especially in 'friends battalions' based on sports teams and so on, soon finding the trenches are a hellish bid for seemingly senseless death. Only Alistair, who prepares for university, wants to stay and mind his blind aunt, but badgered by rascals and the dreaded white chicken feather, ends up joining and filling the ever-growing list of French/Belgian front casualties. Villagers are confronted with corpses closer to home due to the germen zeppelin attacks.
- Although Italy was Austria-Hungary's sworn ally before the war, it soon switched to the Allied side, hoping it could quickly steal grab part of the Alpine border lands, notably Souther Tyrol, while the Hapsburg troops were occupied fighting Russians and Serbians. But the 'civilian' locals put up a stern defense, making best use of superior knowledge of the merciless mountains. The Italians get pinned down and are forced to destroy the villages they wanted to annex. Austrian boy Tobias Klein is seized with his beloved donkey, forced at gunpoint to guide Italian lieutenant Lorenzo Durante's troops, but is at least as desperate not to help them kill his family and friends. Cold, avalanches and fighting, including tunnels to plant explosives, exact an even worse toll then the trenches war.
- Supplies by sea were vital for the warring parties, so they try to sink each-others ships, notably by German submarines, causing tragic shortages of strategic and ordinary goods, even food and fertilizer. Neutral countries could trade with both sides, but as the war progressed, Germany resorted to a total blockade of the British island. The story shows an Aericna family returning home from the Netherlands over England by Dutch ship. Aboard, German deserter stowaway Joachim Herz is found, hiding him proves too dangerous.
- After the Austrian troops wrecked his home and killed his family, orphan Misha Pterowski happily volunteers in the czar's army, a common practice. the war goes terribly, yet he can't understand that adult soldiers applaud the republican revolution and peace with the axis powers. He gets caught in conflicting loyalties with most terrible consequences after the Bolshevik second revolution overturns the social and military order.
- Although an armistice ends fighting on the front, millions of (notably German) POWs remain captive during the peace negotiations, some even afterwards, as part of the 'war reparations' converted in kind. Thus Peter Fuchs is assigned to the war widow Bonnet's farm, where the orphaned kids initially bitterly resent even feeding the hardworking young man they associate with father's killer, yet will end up as a near-father figure by before his release.