Busloads of happy school children arrive to witness Jingles, the first baby panda born at the zoo. After a naughty child in the crowd strikes Jingles with an apple, the frightened Jingles runs away through an undetected hole in the fence. Outside the fence, the fleeing Jingles runs over an innocent bystander, a lab mouse named Cookie, who is indignant until he realizes that Jingles is just a frightened cub. Cookie decides to help her get home. But how? On their journey Jingles will get exactly what Cookie prescribes: an ed-du-k-shun, as they encounter other animals and one girl, named Lilac. Wake up little panda!