A young girl describes what she loves most in her garden during each season.

As his friends Bird, Mouse, and Bear celebrate the arrival of spring, Rabbit finds more and more things to dislike about the change of seasons until, at last, he admits that spring can be full of pleasant surprises.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text describe a year in the lives of bears as they journey through the seasons and raise their young.

Too excited to hibernate through his first winter, a bear cub tries to find spring.

"Animals and children alike watch as the world transforms from the dark and dead of winter to a full and blooming spring"--

Puzzled and even frightened by seasonal changes, a little rabbit discovers the joy of the return of spring.

Follows a young girl from the first wake-up of a new year, through many new experiences and 384 fights with her big brother, to the last bedtime stories in December.

Before her father leaves for a long trip Lilla gives him a sunflower seed, and after seasons pass she receives letters from families with photos of their loved ones with sunflowers, teaching Lilla that her gift to her father brightened others' lives.

In Mother Nature's realm, sisters Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Summer are nature's royalty, responsible for each magical turn of the seasons, but Autumn has lost a special gift from Mother Nature and her sisters must help her find it.

Throughout the year, a brother and sister, and sometimes their parents, enjoy weather that is sunny and birdy, rainy and wormy, windy and squirrelly, or snowy and doey.