Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

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.

When Grandmother Winter shakes out her feather quilt birds, bats, bears, and other creatures prepare themselves for the cold.

In winter Charles and his trusty toboggan set out to find the wish tree, and along the way he helps to make the wishes of his friends Squirrel, Fox, and Beaver come true.

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?

Aaron the alligator gets stuck in a snowball, falls through the ice, and sleeps through the New Year celebration.

A photographic journey deep into the autumn woods witnesses the animals of the forest getting ready for the year's first winter storm.