Gossie is a gosling who likes to wear bright red boots every day, no matter what she is doing, and so she is heartbroken the day the boots are missing and she can't find them anywhere.

Sarah loves her shiny yellow boots, until the day she finds she has grown and cannot fit into them any more.

Holly wants to play in the snow and needs her red boots, so she and her cat Jasper search the house for anything red.

When lonely old Miss Hannah Greyweather finds a boot in the woods, it fills her life with warmth and magic, but she knows even before its true owner appears that she will have to return it.