To build an ark for all the animals, God chose Noah. To lead them to it, God chose... Gilbert?!?

Gilbert the Groundhog loves Caroline with all his heart.  That's too bad for him, because Caroline plans to marry into the upper crust of groundhog society, and Gilbert dwells in the deepest, dingiest tunnels a groundhog can dig.  That is, until they start to flood!
 
When a pair of very special doves warns Gilbert of the troubles to come, nobody in the burrow will listen.  To get Caroline away from those groundhog snobs and on the road to safety, Gilbert tells a teeny tiny lie.  Of course, lies don't stay little for long!  Two-by-two, a menagerie of kooky, crazy animals begins to follow them.  Day-by-day, the journey grows more perilous.  Pretty soon, Gilbert finds himself leading a rowdy zoo of birds and beasts and all kinds of critters through deserts and jungles and much, much worse... 
 
...all because he told a lie.  Now, the storm is come.  The waters are rising.  All these animals want is to run wild and free, but soon there won’t be any place left to run to.  Gilbert had better quit digging himself into a hole, because it takes a hero to lead his friends all the way to Noah's Ark!