Season 1
(2004)
Overview
On her 11th birthday, Marnie McBride goes to a junk shop with her father to pick out a present. There, the mysterious shopkeeper eagerly gifts her a shoebox containing four animal figurines, all of whom have the ability to magically spring to life. Marnie now has to deal with the struggles of balancing her life between adventuring with the collectively named “Shoebox Zoo” animals on a quest to find an ancient book of magic, and her day-to-day life as a schoolgirl, on top of having to deal with …
Cast
as Marnie McBride
as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
as Edwin the Eagle (voice)
as Bruno the Bear (voice)
as Ailsa the Adder (voice)
as Ross McBride
as Michael Scot
as William McTaggart
as The Storyteller (voice)
as Juan Roberto Montoya de Toledo
as Laura Nevin
Episodes
The Magic Is Awakened 0.0
September 21, 2004
On her 11th birthday, still grieving over her recently deceased mother and uncomfortable with being moved from Colorado…
Friend or Foe? 0.0
September 28, 2004
It's Marnie's first day of school at her new home in Scotland. She has an encounter with a bully but makes a new friend…
Echoes of the Past 0.0
October 5, 2004
When a mysterious problem causes school to be cancelled for the day, Marnie and Laura visit the nearby St. Giles’ Cathe…
A Guide for the Perplexed 0.0
October 12, 2004
Marnie manages to get the red book she was looking for from the library, after which a familiar old man appears before …
The Inner Sanctum 0.0
October 19, 2004
Since Marnie's suggestion to go to Tantallon Castle was agreed on by majority vote, her class goes there for a field tr…
A Strange Birthday Party 0.0
October 26, 2004
Marnie is reluctant to go to John Roberts' birthday party until she has a dream revealing that he was really the evil s…
A Little Knowledge 0.0
November 2, 2004
Marnie leaves school in the middle of the day to try to get in touch with Michael Scot, while Toledo tries to convince …
Mother’s Footsteps 0.0
November 9, 2004
Marnie is on a class trip to visit a "stately home," and uses her new powers to defeat a bully, but the shoebox animals…
Where the River Flows 0.0
November 16, 2004
Marnie hopes to find the archway shown on the clue she just received, and plans to do so while on a camping trip to the…
The Sign of the Unicorn 0.0
November 23, 2004
The shoebox animals plead with Marnie to continue the quest, but she insists on trying to catch up on her schoolwork af…
Where Four Elevens Meet 0.0
November 30, 2004
Marnie and Wolfgang confront Michael regarding the events that lead to the creation of the Shoebox Zoo. Meanwhile, the …
Los Contrarios 0.0
December 7, 2004
Toledo hypnotizes Edwin and orders him to open the Book of Forbidden Knowledge. The dark energy released from inside th…
The Day of Reckoning 0.0
December 14, 2004
Marnie makes one last attempt to stop Toledo from taking the book, and comes out victorious after realizing that the bo…