"A pet hamster is enticed by the family cat to venture outside his well-equipped cage to the sunroom only to very quickly discover life outside his cage is not the best for him."--

Penny has a new sled, but will it ever snow?

"Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering...

While Sophie Mouse and her forest friends are playing in the snow one day, they accidentally wake a hibernating hedgehog named Pippa, who is a little grumpy at first, but Sophie, Hattie, and Owen show her all the fun things to do in wintertime.

"The Holiday Mice are going on an egg hunt. Oh no! The littlest mouse is not finding any eggs ... until he stumbles and tumbles upon a very special egg. Will it turn out to [be] the best one of all?"--Page 4 of cover.

When a mouse learns that he is to be the main ingredient in the weasel's mouse soup he concocts four tales to delay its preparation.

"The laughs continue when Fido, the guinea pig that thinks she's a dog, has a pup that thinks she's a squirrel. A sequel to "Guinea Dog."

Two mice argue with increasing heat over their mutual border, until someone bigger intervenes.

"Sophie Mouse gets a surprise visitor when a little bird lands in her yard and hurts his wing."--

Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.