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Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.

Dominic refuses to get his hair cut, no matter how much his mother wants him to or how bad it looks.

"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--

Although Mother Bear urges Alfie to be patient and sleep through winter, he keeps waking up to look for spring.

A mother and son practice writing Chinese characters in the snow. Introduces the characters for ten simple words.

When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

Matthew believes his mother has x-ray vision because she always knows what he's doing. So one day he decides to test his theory. What wil he find out about his mother having super powers?

When his mother sends Herbie the young hedgehog out on his first big foraging adventure, a big wind sweeps him far from home.

A five-year-old boy, ready and eager on his first day at "the big kids' school," must calm his very worried mother.