"With four geese, three mice, and a very grumpy bear all crowded into one den, Bruce is ready for a new home"--Provided by publisher.

It is autumn in Soggy Hollow and the mice have a lot to be thankful for, but Bruce the bear is not so thankful for all the thanking.

Bear has never been so tired but his next-door neighbor, a wide-awake duck, keeps disturbing his sleep.

Grumpy and cold when his forest friends insist he stay awake to celebrate Christmas, Bruce the bear, wearing his long underwear and warm hat, is mistaken for Santa by the youngest forest creatures.

Bruce is a grumpy bear who likes no one and nothing but cooked eggs, but when some eggs he was planning to boil hatch and the goslings believe he is their mother, he must try to make the best of the situation.

Warren, a feisty little koala, is frustrated and annoyed because since the days of Captain Cook, people have called koalas bears, and he really wants everyone to know that koalas are NOT BEARS--unfortunately even Kangaroo and Platypus are not impressed by his argument.

"Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow tell a spooky story to get into the Halloween spirit" --

"A little goose hatches out of an egg and starts following a bear around. The bear becomes more and more convinced that the gosling is actually a bear"--

One morning, Mack the bear wakes up with Zack the boy on his back, but as Mack tries to complete a schedule that is "jam-packed," Zack suggests that he relax and take a second to smell the lilacs.

George the polar bear, unhappy living in a city, sets out to find where he belongs but the jungle, a mountain, the desert, and even the sea feel uncomfortable.