Small Things Make A Difference

After a long, hot summer, the mouse community's well water has run dry. Grandpa Tomis wistfully recalled a brook which used to run through the farm, and Eckhart, Bridgid and Mavis decide to search it out... except that an abandoned beaver dam which now blocks the stream is so big, it defies all their attempts to dismantle it. When all seems hopeless, Eckhart remembers Tomis' advice: small things can make a difference. Eckhart rallies Mavis and Bridgid to help him remove a few small twigs. A trickle of water appears in the gap. A few more twigs, and the trickle becomes a stream, then a torrent. Triumphantly, Mavis, Bridgid and Eckhart surf the revitalized stream home.

Eckhart, Mavis, Mingo, Jasper, Bridgid, Tomis, Ned, Winnie, Clara, Sweeney, Shorty

Eckhart celebrates the pioneering spirit, and the joys and challenges of growing up in a beautiful, magical place called Prince Edward Island. The family series explores really big themes from a very small perspective- that of a mouse named Eckhart, who is full of irrepressible wonderment about the mysteries of his world. A cast of colorful characters joins Eckhart: Grandpa Tomis, mother Clara and sister Mavis; Bridgid and Sweeney, the barn mice; Boss Mouse and his henchmen Ned and Shorty; Madame Thel; Sir Roswald the skunk; Winnie the horse; and many others.

Thirty-nine episodes are planned.

Spun off from "The True Meaning of Crumbfest," an award-winning 1998 Christmas special.

Based on David Weale's "The True Meaning of Crumbfest," which first appeared in "An Island Christmas Reader" in 1994.