Simple text and colorful illustrations celebrate the sights, sounds, and smells of the winter season.

A guide to the seasonal environment of winter, including activities and collecting projects, and information on plants and animals adaptation to cold.

Ready for the rest that cold weather brings, trees, animals, and insects try to awaken Winter.

A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again. Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" captures the magic behind...

As winter comes and Big Bear prepares to hibernate, he keeps thinking he hears Old Man Winter giving him exhausting orders that prevent him from sleeping.

A young mouse is encouraged by his mother to enjoy winter while waiting for spring to come.

"During the first snowy day of winter, five little penguins bundle up and venture outside to play"--

A fox wonders how he should prepare for the coming winter, but what other animals advise will not work for him until another fox comes to his aid.

A family enjoys a winter day of relaxation and fun.

As the reader turns the page, a new animal is added to an illustration of a country home in the winter.