When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.

A curious bear observes how leaves change throughout the seasons.

"A picture book comically following one girl through each of the four seasons"--

"Two mice talk about where the seasons come from"--

A tree tells why, out of all four seasons, autumn is the hardest.

As his friends Bird, Mouse, and Bear celebrate the arrival of spring, Rabbit finds more and more things to dislike about the change of seasons until, at last, he admits that spring can be full of pleasant surprises.

Too excited to hibernate through his first winter, a bear cub tries to find spring.

The rhyming text invites the reader to come along with a loved one and share the simple wonders of the world.

Groundhog wants to please all the animals, but half of them want spring to come quickly and the other half do not--and all of them think he controls the seasons, so what is a poor groundhog to do on Groundhog Day?

When its owners leave, a summer house comes alive with the sounds of a mouse nibbling crumbs in the fall, a cat taking shelter in the winter, and rain falling on the roof in the spring.