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Mrs. Bear plans a surprise Valentine's Day celebration for Mr. Bear despite their usual hibernating habits at that time of year.

A band of trick-or-treaters and a mother cat and her kittens spend a very scary Halloween.

Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.

A little girl and her father tour a dark, mysterious house, eventually revealved to be a "Halloween House."

A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.

Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast.

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.

When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem.