A magical，musical fairy tale concerning a little boy，James Henry Trotter，who finds himself living with his two aunts，Spiker and Sponge at the northern parts of Liverpool，England (back in 1941)，after his parents (back in 1940) were killed by that bad old rhinoceros from the 1940's Long Island Light House that he was coming right out of the clouds to get them……

James's aunts,Spiker and Sponge,are always calling him names.They beat him and starve him and make his life a misery.If only his parents hadn't been eaten by an angry escaped rhinoceros,he wouldn't be in this mess.But one day he meets a mysterious man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues and begins the adventure of his dreams.