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

Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

Illustrations and rhymes celebrate what makes each season special, from baby chicks in the spring through a snowman in the winter.

Invites the reader to tap, rub, touch, and wiggle illustrations to make an apple tree bloom, produce fruit, and lose its leaves.

A curious bear observes how leaves change throughout the seasons.

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.

"In a simple, evocative conversation with nature, a young girl witnesses how the season changes from summer to autumn"--

Using die-cut pages the story explores the shapes and colors of an apple tree through the passing of the seasons.

In rhyming text, a group of happy green peas celebrates the special holidays of each month, and the passing seasons.

Follows the story of a single tree through the changing of the seasons from fall to winter, as people, animals, and vehicles pass in front of the tree, celebrating holidays, playing in the leaves, and building nests. Includes blended words.