The story consists of two main characters named Woodmouth who is a moose with a wooden tooth and Moxy a monkey that likes silly pickles instead of bananas. The story begins with Woodmouth the moose being carried by a crate underneath an airplane destined for the Detroit Zoo. Woodmouth the moose looses his wooden tooth while in transit in a tropical rain forest. While munching, crunching, smunching on silly pickles, Moxy the monkey not really knowing what a wooden tooth looks like, asks Woodmouth a number of questions while bringing him the wrong objects to help Woodmouth find his lost wooden tooth. The both of them go on a series of adventures through a colorful tropical forest that involves palm trees, waterfalls, volcanoes, swamps with crocodiles, and many bugs, while teaching a small child about shapes, colors, and the concept of large and small objects. The story ends to a new story adventure of a pirates treasure to be found.