Daniel Kirk

Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.

As his friends Bird, Mouse, and Bear celebrate the arrival of spring, Rabbit finds more and more things to dislike about the change of seasons until, at last, he admits that spring can be full of pleasant surprises.

Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah leave the library and go to a museum so that Sam can make sketches in his explorer's journal, and while there, they see different kinds of artwork and make friends with another artist.

Rabbit starts a list of the things he loves about Pig, but can't seem to finish it without Pig's help. Rabbit interrupts Pig several times to complete his list and Pig begins to get a bit irritated because he is busy writing a list of his own. Each time Pig is interrupted, Rabbit finds more and more good things about Pig. Both Rabbit and Pig finally finish their lists.

In this variation on the classic song "Over in the Meadow," mother and father trucks show their youngsters how to build down at the construction site, from "mama bulldozer with her little dozer one" to "mama steamroller with her little rollers ten."