When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.

While Frederick the field mouse sat on the wall his brothers gathered food for the winter. Although they accused him of not doing his share of the work, when the food ran out Frederick saved the day with what he had gathered.

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

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

Just after the first snowfall, Bear is ready to go to sleep until spring but his friends encourage him to spend one last day playing with them.

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?

William asks his animal friends, one after another, to awake from hibernation and prepare a celebration for a special friend who has been away all winter.--

Explains the process of hibernation, describing how a dormouse prepares for the long sleep.

"Bear is supposed to sleep through the winter, but he doesn't want to miss out on any of the fun. Fortunately, Mama Duck comes up with a plan that will help everyone have the perfect winter." --

"It is spring and Little Red is excited to be reunited with his best friend, Hazel, a dormouse who will shortly wake from a long sleep. But over the winter, the fox has made another friend, Brock the badger. Little Red decides revealing the new friendship is not the surprise Hazel will want to wake to, so he delays bringing it up as they resume their games. Bu the fox needs to find a way to introduce the friends while maintaining the special friendship...