Simple rebus illustrations are used to present the familiar cumulative nursery rhyme about the antics that go on in the house built by an unsuspecting Jack.
For Hook's birthday, Cubby, Izzy, and Jake decide to make him a cake. When Hook learns of the cake, he tries to steal it even though it is meant for him.
When Hook takes a yellow egg from a hummingbird nest believing it to be gold, Jake and his crew must help the hummingbird parents get it back before it hatches.
Jake and his pirate crew are following a map to the Pirates' Plunge waterslide when Captain Hook tries to take it and the crocodile ends up eating the map. Now Jake and his friends have to figure out a way to get the map out of the crocodile.