Children's Picture Books

Each autumn, just before the onset of winter, a bear shows up in the rugged woodland behind a family farm.

As winter approaches, Mother Bear must bring a snack, a drink, and finally the moon to her cub before he can go to sleep in a cave.

Just as Beany Bear is ready for his long winter's nap, friend Scamp Squirrel asks his help in searching for his misplaced winter nut supply.

Old Bear and his friend Brown Bear decide that sleeping all winter is a waste of time, so they stay awake planning a warm summer vacation and then sleep through the whole trip.

A grizzly bear searches for the perfect place to hibernate.

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

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

Beatrice the bunny wants to share winter with her best friend, Bear, but he will be busy hibernating

Instead of hibernating with her parents, a young turtle decides to explore the winter world outside their shed.

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

Recounts in rhyme the adventures of three children out on a winter walk.

Groundhog decides not to hibernate one winter, even though his friends tell him that he will become cold, hungry, and lonely.

Shows Bear getting ready for his long winter's nap, or hibernation, and his springtime awakening.

Copycub, who imitates everything that his mother bear does, follows her to their den when winter comes and snow begins to fall.

When Bear notices that winter is nearly here he hurries to tell Snail, after which each animal tells another until finally the already sleeping Bear is awakened in his den with the news.

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

Takes young readers on an educational journey through one red bat's seasonal dilemma of hibernating or migrating

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.

When cold weather arrives, five friends (a grub, a beetle, two worms and a caterpillar) prepare for the winter. They amuse themselves in conversation and by playing games. But a little caterpillar only wants to sleep and dream.

Describes, in rhymed text and illustrations, the different places in which various animals sleep

A small but effervescent overnight guest tries the patience of a curmudgeonly bear who needs absolute quiet to fall asleep

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

On the first night of winter, Little Miss Bear will not go to sleep. All winter long is much too long for Little Miss Bear. She is going to miss her stars and her moon, and she is going to miss rolling on hills. Most of all, she is going to miss Mother Bear. But Mother finds a special way to assure her that they will all be there waiting for her--the stars, the moon, the hills, and especially Mother Bear--when she wakes in the spring

Florence the hedgehog and her squirrel friends set off into the woods for a day of play before it's time to hibernate, but as they get farther into the woods, Florence starts to miss home.

A curious young bear, who does not want to miss the delights of winter, skips his first hibernation to play in the snow, glide on the ice, and admire the glittering rows of icicles and snow-covered pine trees.

It is winter in the snowy Far North, and all the bears are settling down to hibernate ... all the bears except Mika, who is too curious to sleep!

Beautiful text combines with evocative illustrations to create an unusual tale of hibernation that hums with the rhythm of the rails.

Winter is coming and it's time for black bears to hibernate; however, a black bear cub is making excuses to Mama Bear to try to avoid the inevitable

While searching for a new place to hibernate, Bernard the bear disrupts the homes of several forest animals.

Rhyming text and pictures introduce the reader to a variety of animals as they try to snuggle in to sleep.

Over the snow, the world is hushed and white, but under the snow is a secret world of squirrels and snowshoe hares, bears and bullfrogs, and many others who live outside in the woods during the winter.

On a cold, snowy evening, several animals snuggle up to a hibernating bear in order to keep warm.

A lyrical description of a chipmunk as it goes about its daily activities.

Recounts the experiences of a shaggy, "boulder-big" bear as the four seasons come to the beautiful wood which is his home.

Rabbit and Mouse spend the winter with Bear in his cave telling him wonderful but untrue stories of how they can fly and the things they have seen.

Depicts the ways various animals spend the cold months of winter, from bats sleeping in caverns to fish swimming deeper in lakes where the water is warmer.

Describes how Chipmunk gathers and stores food to prepare for winter.

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

A journey through the fields, forests, ponds and wetlands to see how animals survive in the snowy winter months, and when the sun's rays grow stronger, join all the animals as they get ready for springtime.

Hedgehog, who hibernates through the winter, wants to know what winter feels like, so he asks his friend Rabbit to save him a little bit of winter to share in the spring.

It's cold in the woods and it's time for Little Bear to start his winter sleep. But not before he says good night to all of his special forest friends -- badger, deer, rabbit, mouse, fox, owl, squirrel, and wolf. Now Little Bear can happily fall asleep in his warm and cozy den all snuggled up to his mother ... knowing that his friends will watch out for him during his long winter's sleep.

Although Mother Bear urges Alfie to be patient and sleep, he cannot wait to see tiny butterflies on the wing and hear baby birds chirp in the trees.

Although the children don't recognize the faint smell of winter in the air, a woodchuck family begins preparing for long snowy nights.

When Little Bear's mother begins to prepare him for winter hibernation, he is sad because he will miss playing with his friends in the snow.

On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun.

As winter comes and Big Bear prepares to hibernate, he keeps thinking he hears Old Man Winter giving him exhausting orders that prevent him from sleeping.

As winter's chill spreads, different animals settle into their cozy homes for a long sleep.