Chantelle has an accident one afternoon; she forgets to put the lid back on the Nutella jar. The chocolate spread melts out of the kitchen and into the garden. Later she finds little footprints in the chocolate. Something compels her to walk around the tree and shake its low branch and that's how she discovers Animal Town. In a delightful series of stories Chantelle meets the inhabitants of Animal Town including Inspector Churchill, the bulldog policeman, Charlotte and Peterson rabbit and many others. Although Chantelle cannot enter the town because she doesn't have things like fur and whiskers, Churchill allows her to stand at the gate and watch their lives go by. One day a strange thing happens, the animals start to argue, and be cruel to each other. Will Animal Town ever be the same again?