A sweet story about the benefits of patience and dedication:  a young mouse is disappointed (at first) with his grandfather’s birthday gift of some seeds, but his grandfather assures him that if they plant one and water it every day and wait patiently, soon it will grow into something that will provide both food and a play place.  After planting the seed together, the young mouse rushes out the next day to see what he’s got, only to learn he must be patient. Eventually he is rewarded with a small sprout, which still seems a little disappointing.  One day he runs off with his friends to play, only to return to find his neglected sprout wilting.  He apologizes, and returns to his efforts, and calls upon others for help when he is ill and cannot tend it himself, and in the end he has a beautiful tomato plant that he and his friends all play in while enjoying its fruits.