For two years Gabby the cat s sole aim in life is to hunt down Speedy, a young mouse, but one New Year s Eve, everything changes. As Gabby is about to murder Speedy and his helpless parents, he is overcome by a revelatory feeling and, instead, he changes his wicked ways and takes the mouse family into his home. Soon Gabby and Speedy must travel far from their unenlightened homeland to the Azure Land, a world where the anthropomorphic animals work and live together in harmony. There they meet a human, Tim, who has the gift of animal languages, who appeared in the land as a baby under...