Bear, with the help of his animal friends, remembers the story he had hoped to tell before the onset of winter.

"Louis and his eccentric Grandmother set out to count every dog in the neighborhood when they find out about city hall's woefully inadequate record keeping"--Verso page.

"Aunt Josephine tells her niece Sadie the tale of her lifelong pursuit of a man-eating frog"--

"On a peculiarly long night, three farm animals set out on a daring quest to bring the sunrise"--

Today is a very nice day. There has never been a day so nice as this, except for maybe yesterday. Join Vernon and his friends Skunk and Porcupine on a series of three enchanting adventures entitled Waiting, Fishing, and Gardening, as they comb the forest floor for trinkets and go fishing in their own unconventional way.

"A little girl goes on a long journey to deliver an elephant to her great aunt"--

The limitless possibilities of the world outside our windows--and the warmth and comfort of home--are explored in this thoughtful meditation on the imagination, as seen from the point of view of a wise old dog. Any child who has ever felt uncertainty about the world outside will be soothed and enchanted by the open-ended, seemingly-unanswerable, and utterly whimsical questions this book poses: "Will I ever be the dawdle of a penguin? Will I ever be...