Grace loves the Farmer's Fair and can't wait for its return. She keeps asking her mother when fair time will come, but almost a whole year must pass before it does.
Harriet Harrington is an author who lives alone in a little house in the North Woods and prefers it that way, until her friend Monique convinces her to bring a Bichon Frise puppy home for just one week.
The reader is invited to follow the paw prints of a rambunctious golden retriever and then identify his animal friends by studying their tracks in the snow.