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

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?

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

"Every baby bear knows the warmth of spring only comes after sleeping through the cold of winter. For little cub Elliott, however, it's not that easy. First, something tickles his nose, rousing him from a dream, and then every shadow, noise, and passing thought keeps him up. No amount of fluffing of his pillow or tossing and turning will help. He even tries nudging his mom out of her slumber! But he's Still. Wide. Awake." --

After a bear cub persuades his friends to play with him instead of hibernating, he gets very tired and falls asleep.

At the end of the day a little boy falls asleep as his mama reads about a bear hibernating.

Figgy Twosocks sulks when her friend Jefferson Bear goes away to hibernate, but in time she finds a new friend in Hoptail the squirrel and is able to play again with Jefferson after winter ends.

Hanna Bear asks her animal friends to wake her from hibernation for Christmas.

The forest animals' Christmas celebrations keep interrupting Grumpy Badger's winter hibernation, until he decides to join them.

"A cozy winter bedtime story, featuring a boy and animal characters, that touches on the concept of hibernation"--