Nancy Tafuri

Squirrel is too busy getting ready for winter to nibble a pumpkin with Mouse, run in the field with Dog, or otherwise play with any of the other animals. The leaves have started to fall. The air is cold. Squirrel needs to get ready for winter. He cannot nibble with the mice. He does not have time to hop with the frogs or run with the dogs. But there is one thing he can do!

Questions and answers highlight some outstanding characteristics of farm animals, such as a chicken's feathers and a horse's mane.

A mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling.

Goose, Duck, Hen, Bird and the little chick, itself, cannot tell to whom a new hatchling belongs, but its mother knows.

Ten animals find shelter in a hill hollow one by one, but when the storm is over, a rumbling tells them there is still danger afoot.

Forest animals come out after a fresh snow to eat the seeds a thoughtful child has scattered on the ground.