Every year Tortoise sleeps through winter. He assumes he isn't missing much. Will Tortoise sleep through another winter, or will his friends convince him to stay awake and experience the frosty fun of winter?

During the winter, Beaver searches for a home, flees a coyote, and finds a mate.

On a snowy New Year's Eve, two black horses pull a sleigh through town, spreading love and joy to the community.

While other animals migrate, hibernate, or stay busy all winter, a little white rabbit watches.

Three mothers and their offspring--fox, rabbit, and human--wait for the first snow of winter.

The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along.

Cantankerous Ezra keeps rebuffing his nosy neighbor Old Betty when she tries to give him advice on how to survive the cold winter nights, until she finally discovers that his five dogs are his private source for warmth.

After hearing about winter from his friends, Hedgie the hedgehog tries to stay awake to experience its wonders.

From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief. Chuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much as his annual trip to Hilton Head with his wife, Cat--that...