Jan Brett

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

Hoppi the bunny wants to win the egg-decorating contest so the Easter Bunny will choose him to help distribute Easter eggs, but instead, while everyone else is working on their decorations, he finds himself guarding an egg that has fallen from a robin's nest.

After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.

When Annie's cat disappears, she attempts friendship with a variety of unsuitable woodland animals, but with the emergence of Spring, everything comes right.

Everybody thinks Jamie's too little to march in the village parade. So Jamie makes his own.

"In Loren Long's ... interpretation of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," readers are invited to visit the homes of four families-- each on Christmas Eve. What do these four homes share? The excitement and anticipation of the most splendid night of the year"--Dust jacket flap.